Rose Mont

Historical marker location:

Gallatin, Tennessee

( Memorial can be reached from the intersection of South Water Avenue (Old State Highway 109) and James Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2009

Tribute to Major George Blackmore.

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.