Historical Marker
Veatch's Brigade
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road Extension, 0.1 miles north of Corinth Road when traveling north.)
Hurlbut'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.