Tolbert Fanning

Historical marker location:

1324 Vultee Blvd, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Briley Parkway (Tennessee Route 155) and Vultee Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Briley Parkway.)

Marker installed: 2003

1810-1874.

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.