Fuller's Assault

Historical marker location:

Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Tennessee Route 22, 0.6 miles north of Interstate 40, on the right when traveling north.)

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.