Pulaski, Tennessee 1865, creating rules for a secret white society. The white insurgents were determined to maintain white supremacy and to fight secretly against the political advancement of freedmen and of sympathetic whites. Chapter of the KKK quickly were organized in other parts of the state and the South. KKK members often attacked their victims at night, to increase the intimidation of threats and assaults. Other incidents of racial violence against blacks also took place. The Pulaski riot was a race riot initiated by whites against blacks that occurred in Pulaski in the summer of 1867. Martin Methodist College was founded in
Pulaski, Tennessee Pulaski in 1870. Pulaski is located in central Giles County at (35.195786, -87.034328). The downtown area is on the north side of Richland Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Elk River. U.S. Route 31 passes through the center of Pulaski as First Street, leading north to Columbia and southeast to Ardmore at the Alabama border. U.S. Route 31 Alternate (E. Grigsby Street) leaves U.S. 31 in the north part of Pulaski and heads northeast to Lewisburg. U.S. Route 64 passes south of Pulaski on a bypass route; it leads east to Fayetteville and west to Lawrenceburg. According to the United