Preparing for Removal

Historical marker location:

8746 Hiwassee Street, Charleston, Tennessee

( Marker is on Market Street NE north of Hiwassee Street (U.S. 11), on the left when traveling north.)

Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.