Allen Grammar School

Historical marker location:

474 2nd Street Southeast, Cleveland, Tennessee

( Marker is on 2nd Street Southeast, 0.1 miles south of Linden Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2017

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.