Pulaski Citizen 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 this period L.W. McCord feigned ignorance of what the Ku Klux Klan was, while simultaneously printing messages from them in the paper that he claimed to be mysteriously delivered. Subsequently, Laps
Pulaski riot Pulaski riot The Pulaski riot was a race riot that occurred in Pulaski, Tennessee, on January 7, 1868. While the riot appeared to be based in a trade dispute of the previous summer between Calvin Lamberth, a white man, and Calvin Carter, an African American, it was provoked when Lamberth shot a friend of Carter's over rumored comments about the former's black mistress. After Lamberth shot Carter's friend, Whitlock Fields, numerous other armed whites came from nearby houses and attacked Carter and seven other black men at a nearby black-owned grocery store. Although the constable arranged a ceasefire, after the