Historical Marker
117-119 E. Lafayette
Historical marker location:
117 E Lafayette St, Jackson, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of East Lafayette Street and North Liberty Street, on the right when traveling west on East Lafayette Street.)
Marker installed: 2001
Circa 1840's .
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.