Historical Marker
Samuel Watkins
Historical marker location:
2298 Rosa L. Parks Blvd, Nashville, Tennessee
( Marker is on Rosa L. Parks Boulevard (Alternate U.S. 41) ΒΌ mile Athens Way, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1968
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.