Historical Marker
Hubris Building
Historical marker location:
117 South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennessee
( Marker is on South Gay Street south of West Jackson Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)
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.