7 Jan 1868 Jahr - Pulaski riot

Beschreibung:

A race riot that occurred in Pulaski, Tennessee, at first appearing to be based in a trade dispute of the previous summer between Calvin Lamberth, a white man, and Calvin Carter, an African American, until Lamberth shot a friend of Carter's over rumored comments about the former's black mistress.

After Lamberth shot Carter's friend, Whitlock Fields, numerous other armed whites came from nearby houses and attacked Carter and seven other black men at a nearby black-owned grocery store. Although the constable arranged a ceasefire, after the freedmen gathered at the door of the store, some eighteen whites rushed and shot at them at close range. They murdered one man, mortally wounded another, and injured four. No white was injured or prosecuted. The incident was investigated by the Freedmen's Bureau office of Nashville, Tennessee.