Bean Station

Historical marker location:

Bean Station, Tennessee

( Marker is on Bean Station Cemetery Road south of Old Lee Hwy (US 11W), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1929

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.