1878

Historical marker location:

215 Legion Street, Clarksville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Main Street east of North 2nd Street (Tennessee Route 76), on the right when traveling east.)

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.