Pulaski Citizen D. McCord became the owner, passing it on to others in the McCord family after his death. In 1892 the "Citizen" was purchased by a Nashville businessman, leaving the McCord family. Pulaski Citizen The "Pulaski Citizen" is a local newspaper serving Pulaski, Tennessee. It is currently available in both print and online editions. The "Pulaski Citizen" was founded in 1854 as a four page weekly. It has been in continuous publication since 1866. In the years after the Civil War, the paper's editor was L.W. McCord, whose brother Frank McCord was a founding member of the Ku Klux Klan. During
History of Tennessee December. After the war, Tennessee adopted the Thirteenth amendment forbidding slave-holding or involuntary servitude on February 22, 1865; ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866; and was the first state readmitted to the Union on July 24, 1866. Because it had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor during Reconstruction. "Proscription" was the policy of disqualifying as many ex-Confederates as possible. In 1865 Tennessee disfranchised upwards of 80,000 ex-Confederates. There were only two or three African Americans in the Tennessee