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
Interstate 40 in Tennessee study was completed in 2008. On January 18, 2008, the Federal Highway Administration authorized the states of Mississippi and Tennessee to extend I-69 from the I-40/SR 300 interchange in north Memphis to the I-55/I-69 interchange in Hernando, Mississippi; however, Tennessee has signed the extension of the route, although Mississippi has already done so. Construction was recently completed on the I-40/I-240 interchange in East Memphis. This reconfiguration was needed since the original configuration was designed as if I-40 were to go through the center of the city along what is now Sam Cooper Boulevard. The first phase of the project replaced