Historical Marker
Englewood
Historical marker location:
Englewood, Tennessee
( Marker is on South Niota Road (Tennessee Route 39), on the right when traveling south.)
A Textile Mill Town.
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.