Historical Marker
Clay Faulkner
Historical marker location:
2645 Faulkner Springs Road, McMinnville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Faulkner Springs Road and Bluff Springs Road, on the left when traveling north on Faulkner Springs Road.)
April 11, 1845 - August 26, 1916.
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.