Stoughton's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road north of East View Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1890

Johnson' Division - Palmers' Corps.. Col. William L. Stoughton.

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.