Historical Marker
Merry High School
Historical marker location:
332 Lane Avenue, Jackson, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Lane Avenue and Royal Street, on the right when traveling east on Lane Avenue.)
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.