Historical Marker
Grantland Rice
Historical marker location:
200 E College St, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of North Spring Street and East College Street, on the right when traveling north on North Spring Street.)
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.