Historical Marker
E. W. Grove High School
Historical marker location:
217 Grove Boulevard, Paris, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Grove Boulevard.)
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.