Historical Marker
Williamson County Jail
Historical marker location:
108 Bridge St, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker is on Bridge Street, 0.1 miles east of 2nd Avenue North, on the right when traveling west.)
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.