Desegregating Nashville's Lunch Counters

Historical marker location:

Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd and Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling south on Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd.)

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.