Signal Hill

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Walnut Street and East 5th Street, on the left when traveling south on Walnut Street.)

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.