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
Church of the Messiah (Pulaski, Tennessee) people, including four Episcopal bishops and a former governor of Tennessee, John Calvin Brown. Money for construction of the church building was donated by Brown and his wife in memory of their daughter, Daisy Brown. The church building was added to the National Register on July 28, 1983. The Church of the Messiah is an actively functioning parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. The current Priest-in-Charge is The Rev. Jess Reeves. National Register of Historic Places listings in Giles County, Tennessee Church of the Messiah (Pulaski, Tennessee) The Church of the Messiah, located at 114 North 3rd Street in