Cap't Champ Ferguson

Historical marker location:

Sparta, Tennessee

( Marker is on Monterey Highway (State Highway 84) 1.4 miles north of Mack Floyd Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1975

(Confederate Guerilla).

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.