Confederate Cemetery

Historical marker location:

1345 Carnton Lane, Franklin, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Carnton Lane, 0.3 miles south of Brandon Drive, on the left when traveling south.)

<-- 0.7 miles.

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.