Ralph S. Peer

Historical marker location:

830 State Street, Bristol, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of State Street and Ralph S. Peer Street on State Street.)

(1892 - 1960).

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.