Lynching in America / The Lynchings of Henry and Ephraim Grizzard

Historical marker location:

Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of 1st Avenue North and Union Street North, on the right when traveling north on 1st Avenue North.)

Marker installed: 2019

Community Remembrance Project.

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.