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Pulaski is a city in and the county seat of Giles County, located on the southern border of Tennessee, United States. The population was 8,397 at the 2020 census. It was named after the Polish-born American Revolutionary War soldier Casimir Pulaski. During early years of Reconstruction, in late 1865, it was the site of Confederate veterans organizing the first chapter of what became known as the Ku Klux Klan, a secret, white supremacist group. In 1870 Martin Methodist College was founded in Pulaski for white students in the area. [edit] History
Pulaski was founded in 1809. During the American Civil War, the vicinity of Pulaski was the site of a number of skirmishes during the Franklin–Nashville Campaign. Union troops occupied the state from 1862. In 1863, Confederate courier Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski by the Union Army on suspicion of espionage. In late 1865, during the early days of the Reconstruction Era, the city was the site of founding the first Ku Klux Klan (KKK) by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones established the KKK in Pulaski on December 25, 1865, creating rules for a secret white society. The white insurgents were determined to maintain and to fight secretly against the political advancement of freedmen and of sympathetic whites. Chapters 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 against blacks that occurred in Pulaski in the winter of 1868. Martin Methodist College was founded in Pulaski in 1870. Martin Methodist College was subsequently merged with the UT System to become the new campus under the University of Tennessee System, known as University of Tennessee Southern in 2021 and it is now a public University. [edit] Research Tips
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