Historical Marker

Ohio

Historical marker location:
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Shingle Road, 0.1 miles north of Military Road.)
Marker installed: 1917

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.