Historical Marker
Fernvale
Historical marker location:
5341 Old Harding Rd, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker is on Old Harding Road (Old State Highway 96) 0.2 miles north of Fernvale Road, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2000
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.