Chattanooga Central High School

Historical marker location:

511 Dodds Ave, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on Dodds Avenue (U.S. 64) north of Burkett-Miller Drive (Route 0), on the right when traveling north.)

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.