Historical Marker
Fighting for Freedom
Historical marker location:
707 Promise Land Road, Charlotte, Tennessee
( Marker is on Promise Land Road north of Reddon Crossing Road, on the left when traveling north.)
Promise Land Civil War Heroes.
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.