Earl Eugene Scruggs

Historical marker location:

1400 TN-6, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Gallatin Pike South (U.S. 31E) 1.3 miles north of Briley Parkway (State Highway 155), on the right when traveling south.)

January 6, 1924 - March 28, 2012.

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.