Historical Marker
Crockett Tavern
Historical marker location:
2002 Morningside Drive, Morristown, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Morningside Drive and Ridgelawn Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Morningside Drive.)
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.