Historical Marker
403-405 Main Street
Historical marker location:
403 Main Street, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and 4th Avenue Soutg, on the right when traveling north on West Main Street.)
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.