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 Skyway radio, film, television, and at least one video game. In the 1938 radio drama "The War of the Worlds", one of the Martian machines straddles the skyway (a scene replicated in the 2005 film wherein the first machine appears in the shadow of the bridge). It was featured in the 1979 film "Hair". Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film "Shadow of a Doubt" and the 1999–2007 television drama "The Sopranos" include shots of the bridge in the opening montages. Clutch included the track "Pulaski Skyway" on its 2005 release "Robot Hive/Exodus." Footnotes Works cited Pulaski Skyway The Pulaski Skyway is a four-lane