Putnam County Courthouses

Historical marker location:

Cookeville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of South Jefferson (U.S. 136) and E. Broad St., on the right when traveling north on South Jefferson.)

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.