Historical Marker
Leiper's Fork
Historical marker location:
4115 Old Hillsboro Rd, Leiper's Fork, Tennessee
( Marker is on Old Hillsboro Road (State Highway 49) 0.1 miles south of Southall Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1990
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.