Historical Marker
Robert E. Lee School
Historical marker location:
405 Lee St, Paris, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Lee Street and Crawford Street, on the left when traveling north on Lee Street.)
Marker installed: 2006
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.