Historical Marker
Montpier
Historical marker location:
2340 Hillsboro Road, Grassland, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Hillsboro Road (U.S. 431) and Old Hillsboro Road (State Highway 46), on the right when traveling south on Hillsboro Road.)
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.