Fort Higley

Historical marker location:

1000 Cherokee Trail, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Cherokee Trail, 0.1 miles north of Spruce Ridge Way, on the right when traveling north.)

<i>Decisive Battle for Knoxville</i>. Knoxville Campaign.

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.