[3] The village is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski.

[4] Pulaski was founded in 1852 as a construction camp along the Illinois Central Railroad.

[6] The village lies in the Cache River basin north of Cairo.

The racial makeup of the village was 28.10% White, 70.80% African American, and 1.09% from two or more races.

About 26.5% of families and 32.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 42.9% of those under the age of eighteen and 29.8% of those 65 or over.