The Pulaski riot was a race riot that occurred in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee, in the summer of 1867. There were many external racial and societal influences but the origin of the riot appeared to be a trade dispute between white Calvin Lamberth and Calvin Carter, an African-American. Lamberth was told, afterwards, that Carter and his friend Whitlock Fields "threatened" Lamberth's black mistress. Lamberth found Fields and shot him twice with a pistol. After the shots were fired, local whites ran from their homes with pistols and shotguns.