Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

1237 Main St, Sneedville, Tennessee

( Memorial is on Main Street (Tennessee Route 33) just west of Jockey Street, on the right when traveling west.)

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.