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The "Mule capital of the world," Columbia annually jubilates the city-designated Mule Day each April.
Columbia and Maury County are acknowledged as the "Antebellum Homes Capital of Tennessee", with more pre-Civil War homes than any other county in the state.
Columbia is also the home of the nationwide headquarters for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Columbia is home to one of the last two surviving residences of the 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk, the other being the White House.
1.1 Columbia race brawl of 1946 Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia is the only one of President Polk's private homes that is still standing A year after the organization of Maury County in 1807 by European Americans, Columbia was laid out in 1808 and lots were sold.
For decades amid the antebellum years, it was the governmental center of county when Maury County was the richest in the state, based on its agricultural richness in plantations, which cultivated commodity crops of tobacco and hemp, and high-quality livestock.
Although Tennessee had competing voting amid Reconstruction, in the late 19th century, the state council passed laws to disenfranchise African Americans, a political exclusion that continued deep into the 20th century.
This adversely affected ethnic relations for decades in Columbia and Maury County.
In 1927 and 1933, young black men were lynched in Maury County for alleged assaults against white women; the first was held only as a suspect, and the other had been released by the court when a grand jury did not indict him. In 1933 Cordie Cheek, a 19-year-old black man, was falsely accused of raping a white girl.
During World War II there was an expansion in Columbia of phosphate quarrying and the chemical trade to support the war accomplishment.
By the 1940 census, the total town/city population was 10,579, of whom more than 3,000 were African American. Chemical plants were a site of workforce unrest between white and black workers after the war, as veterans sought to re-enter the economy.
Black veterans did not want second-class status after having fought in the war. This reconstructionled to a more active campaign for civil rights amid the 1950s and 1960s throughout the state.
Polk Ancestral Home, the Columbia Athenaeum, Mule Day, and close-by plantation homes.
Columbia is the locale of Tennessee's first two-year college, Columbia State Community College, established in 1966.
Columbia race brawl of 1946 On February 25, 1946, a civil disturbance dubbed "the Columbia Race Riot" broke out in the county seat.
As caucasians gathered in the square talking about the incident, blacks armed themselves and prepared to defend their company district, starting about one block south of the square.
Worried that the small law enforcement could not control the mob, the mayor called in the State Guard and the sheriff called in the state Highway Patrol that evening.
Two black men were killed and a third wounded in what the police said was an escape attempt while the Highway Patrol was trying to take them from the jail to the sheriff's office. The State Guard was withdrawn on March 3.
Marshall asked for a change of venue, hoping to get the trial moved to Nashville or another primary city, but the judge surprisingly agreed to move the trial to close-by Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.
The NAACP continued their publicity campaign about the affairs, which were veiled by nationwide media. The case attained much consideration on the copy of civil rights for African Americans in the United States, and the NAACP and other organizations put pressure on President Harry S.
He appointed a President's Committee on Civil Rights, which issued its report in October 1947. Marshall was later appointed as the first black United States Supreme Court justice, after gaining the overturn of segregation in enhance schools by the US Supreme Court in Brown v.
Columbia is positioned at 35 36 54 N 87 2 40 W (35.615022, 87.044464). It is nestled along the banks of the Duck River at the southern edge of the Nashville Basin with the higher elevated ridges of the Highland Rim positioned to the south and west of the city.
The Duck River is the longest river positioned entirely inside the state of Tennessee.
It enters the town/city of Manchester and meets its confluence with a primary tributary, The Little Duck River, at Old Stone Fort State Park, titled after an ancient Native American structure between the two rivers believed to be nearly 2,000 years old.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.6 square miles (77 km2), of which 29.6 square miles (77 km2) is territory and 0.03% is water.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 64.63% White, 30.13% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.06% from other competitions, and 1.46% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Columbia State Community College In 1986, a brief scene from the film At Close Range was filmed east of Columbia at a water-filled modern quarry.
In 1999, parts of the film The Green Mile were filmed in Williamsport, near Columbia.
In 2002, Stuey was filmed in Columbia and Nashville.
The film Daltry Calhoun, starring Johnny Knoxville, was filmed in Columbia and Spring Hill in 2004.
In 2009, Hannah Montana: The Movie was filmed at spots in downtown Columbia, at Maury County Airport, and a small-town dairy farm.
In 2009, scenes for Bailey (2010), a Mario Van Peebles film, were shot in downtown Columbia on the square and in other locations. John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor for actions amid Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II United States Enumeration Bureau.
Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties, State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011.
Dorothy Beeler, "Race Riot in Columbia, Tennessee/ February 25-27, 1946", Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol.
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Columbia race riot, 1946".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
Columbia, Tennessee: Mark Palmer.
Climate Summary for Columbia, Tennessee , Columbia Daily Herald, 4 September 2009 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Columbia, Tennessee.
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