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
Casimir Pulaski Stevens released a song called "Casimir Pulaski Day" on his album Illinois, referencing Pulaski Day ("the first of March, on the holiday") as the day a girl dies of cancer. In "Gilmore Girls", season 3, episode 14 entitled, "Swan Song" and season 4, episode 16 entitled, "The Reigning Lorelai", there is a statue of Casimir Pulaski in the town square. In the middle of the season 4 episode, Nicole and Luke are seen fighting outside right in front of the statue. In the Season 3 episode of "The West Wing" entitled "Stirred", Pulaski is mentioned, and US President Jed Bartlett