Historical Marker
Franklin High School
Historical marker location:
1117 Columbia Ave, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker is on Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) just south of W Fowlkes Street, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2019
1926 - 1956.
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.