Historical Marker
First Brick House
Historical marker location:
202 W Commerce St, Loretto, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of West Commerce Street and North Main Street, on the right when traveling west on West Commerce Street.)
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.