David Campbell Memorial

Historical marker location:

Dayton, Tennessee

( Memorial can be reached from Washington Pike, 0.1 miles south of Old Washington Highway (Tennessee Route 30).)

Marker installed: 2011

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.