Lt. Joseph A. Irvine

Historical marker location:

219 Cemetery St, Columbia, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Cemetery Street and South Glade Street, on the right when traveling north.)

B. September 25, 1841 - D. April 12, 1890.

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.