Pulaski riot addition to the riot, whites killed blacks in other local incidents, and conducted campaigns of general harassment against freedmen and their sympathizers in the area. The riot was a demonstration of the KKK's growing power in Giles County, and the Middle Tennessee area. KKK members were said to commit more than 1,300 murders during the run up the Election of 1868. Most of the violence were directed towards blacks to intimidate them and break Republican support, though "carpetbagger" and "scalawag" whites were also targeted. Pulaski riot The Pulaski riot was a race riot that occurred in Pulaski, Tennessee, on January
Pulaski Historic Residential District Pulaski Historic Residential District Pulaski Historic Residential District is a national historic district located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It encompasses 278 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of the town of Pulaski. The dwellings are primarily frame and brick residences dating from the 1880s through the 1940s. They include the large homes of the factory managers, and the more modest homes of workers. Notable non-residential buildings include the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (c. 1890), the First Baptist Church (125-6-280) (c. 1892), the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (c. 1906), the law office of Samuel N. Hurst, Masonic