Cairo, Illinois

Historical marker location:

125 N Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Island Drive, 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south.)

Panel #65 Mississippi Riverwalk. Mile 954.0 AHP.

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.