Historical Marker
Cherryville
Historical marker location:
Bells, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Cherryville Road and College Street (Tennessee Route 88), on the right when traveling west on Cherryville Road.)
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.