Andre Michaux

Historical marker location:

Johnson City, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Roan Street south of Bonita Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

1746-1803.

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.