Freedom Light

Historical marker location:

200 Center Ave, Dickson, Tennessee

( Memorial is at the intersection of Center Avenue (State Highway 48) and East Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling west on Center Avenue.)

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.