Martin Hotel

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on M. L. King Boulevard (Tennessee Route 2) near Lindsey Street, on the left when traveling west.)

1924-1985. Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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.