Andrew Johnson

Historical marker location:

1100 Fort Negley Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Fort Negley Boulevard north of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.