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None [1] Henry Choate was an 18-year-old African-American teenager who was lynched by a mob in Columbia, Tennessee, on November 13, 1927. [2] Choate was accused of having assaulted 16-year old Sarah Harlan, a white girl, and was taken to the Columbia jail, despite Harlan not being able to identify Choate as the attacker.
Columbia race riot of 1946. On the night of February 26–27, 1946, a disturbance known as the Columbia Race Riot took place in Columbia, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The national press, which covered it extensively, called it the first "major racial confrontation" after the Second World War.
Columbia is a city in and the county seat [ 5] of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. [ 6] Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area . The self-proclaimed " mule capital of the world," Columbia celebrates the city-designated Mule Day each April.
Maury County ( / ˈmʌri / MURR-ee) is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Middle Tennessee region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 100,974. [2] Its county seat is Columbia. [3] Maury County is part of the Nashville-Davidson – Murfreesboro – Franklin, TN metropolitan statistical area .
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Lynching of Cordie Cheek. James Cordie Cheek (1916 – December 15, 1933 [3]) was a 17-year-old [4] African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob in Maury County, Tennessee near the county seat of Columbia. After being falsely accused of attempting to rape a young white girl, Cheek was released from jail when the grand jury did not ...
April 1, 1975. The Old Bedford County Jail, sometimes known as the Rock House Jail, [2] is a 19th-century jail building located near the public square in Shelbyville, Tennessee . The old jail is a two-story building built in 1866-7 from solid hand-hewn limestone. [2] [3] [4] Goodspeed's 1887 History of Tennessee described it as "one of the ...
There are 95 counties in the U.S. State of Tennessee. As of 2023, Shelby County was both Tennessee's most populous county, with 910,042 residents, and the largest county in area, covering an area of 755 sq mi (1,955 km 2 ). The least populous county was Pickett County (5,128) and the smallest in area was Trousdale County, covering 114 sq mi ...