Historical Marker
Trinity Episcopal Church
Historical marker location:
317 Franklin Street, Clarksville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Franklin Street, 0.1 miles west of North 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.)
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.