Historical Marker
Nicholas Gibbs
Historical marker location:
7412 Emory Road, Corryton, Tennessee
( Marker is on Emory Road (Tennessee Route 331) ΒΌ mile west of Tazewell Pike (Tennessee Route 131), on the right when traveling west.)
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.