Historical Marker
General Griffith Rutherford
Historical marker location:
Gallatin, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Hartsville Pike (Tennessee Route 25) and Belle Breeze Place, on the right when traveling east on Hartsville Pike.)
1721-1805.
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.