Courthouse

Historical marker location:

Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 31) and 3rd Avenue South, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1976

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.