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Historical marker location:

400 Buffalo Street, Johnson City, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Buffalo and Cherry Street, on the right when traveling north on Buffalo.)

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.