Giles County Courthouses

Historical marker location:

333 East College Street, Pulaski, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from South Sam Davis Avenue south of East College Street.)

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.