Anthia Brady Hughes

Historical marker location:

McMinnville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of E. Main St and Mulberry St, on the right when traveling east on E. Main St.)

1868-1949. Willie Hughes -1895-1986.

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.