Historical Marker
Gibson's Brigade
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road Extension, 0.1 miles north of Corinth Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps. Army of the Mississippi.
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.