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
U.S. Route 31 in Tennessee and go into Kentucky. The first mile of US 31 in Tennessee runs concurrently with I-65. US 31 then goes through Elkton before going through mainly rural countryside until it has a interchange with US 64 Bypass (US 64 Byp.) on the outskirts of Pulaski. US 31 gains the name 1st Street through Pulaski; upon leaving Pulaski US 31 meets the southern terminus of US 31A (Grigsby Street). US 31 goes through more rural countryside on its way to Columbia. In Columbia, US 31 picks up the names Carmack Boulevard and Garden Street; it also has a short concurrency with