Historical Marker
Carters Raid
Historical marker location:
Kyles Ford, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Tennessee Route 70) and Kyles Ford Highway (Tennessee Route 33), on the right when traveling north on Trail of the Lonesome Pine.)
Jan. 1, 1863.
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.