Historical Marker
Van Derveer's Brigade
Historical marker location:
250 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Brown Wood Drive, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1890
Baird's Division - Palmer's Corps.. Col. Ferdinand Van Derveer.
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.