Lt. Charles R. Ware, USN

Historical marker location:

Athens, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Sunset Drive west of Ceasar Street, on the left when traveling north.)

U.S.S. Charles R. Ware (DD-865) 1945-1981.

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.