Historical Marker
Fiddlin Charlie Bowman
Historical marker location:
Johnson City, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Roscoe Fitz Road and Sunset Drive (Tennessee Road 82), on the left when traveling east on Roscoe Fitz Road.)
1889-1962.
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.