Historical Marker
Bradley Central High School
Historical marker location:
2231 N Ocoee St, Cleveland, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Ocoee Street (State Highway 74) just north of 22nd Street Northwest, on the left when traveling south.)
The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.