57th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from North Crest Road north of Lightfoot Mill Road.)

Marker installed: 1908

Giles A. Smith's Brigade.. Lieut. Col. Samuel R. Mott.

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.