Historical Marker
Andrew Johnson
Historical marker location:
Greeneville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of E Depot Street and S College Street, on the right when traveling east on E Depot Street.)
1808 - 1875.
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.