Historical Marker
43rd Illinois Infantry
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Cavalry Road and Sherman Road, on the right when traveling west on Cavalry Road.)
Raith's Brigade - McClernand's Division. Army of the Tennessee.
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.