Historical Marker
Final Line
Historical marker location:
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
( Marker is on Shingle Road north of Lookout Mountain Scenic Highway (Tennessee Route 148), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1890
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.