Historical Marker
Sam Davis Capture Site
Historical marker location:
Minor HIll, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Sam Davis Circle and Monument Drive, on the right when traveling south on Sam Davis Circle.)
Minor Hill.
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.