Columbia Lands Recreation and Natural Area.  This page briefly describes the creation of the Yanahli Wildlife Management Area.  

Cooper, William Prentice.  After three terms as governor of Tennessee, Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville was appointed ambassador to Peru in 1946.  Cooper earned praise from Peru for his personal initiative in organizing relief for victims of the 1946 earthquake; the U.S. State Department, however, was displeased and shifted the unwanted expense to the Red Cross and the U.S. Defense Command.  Cooper negotiated a compromise, reducing debts that Peru incurred during the administration of President Augusto B. Leguía.

Daso, Dik Alan.  From 1938 to 1946, as the first Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces--the largest air force ever assembled to that time--Hap Arnold fought World War II in Congress, on the Army General Staff, in factories, and in universities.  His vision of airpower as more than sophisticated aircraft not only established U.S. air supremacy during the war but also laid the foundations of today's air force and the U.S. victory in the Cold War.  His persistence led to the creation of Arnold Air Force Base near Tullahoma and ARO engineering.  This biography is the first to draw on all of Arnold's personal papers as well as recently declassified military documents.

Delk, Wayne C.  This study explored relationships in spending changes within the Maury County School system from 1946-47 until 1966-67.  The conclusions were made that the county school system would examine its building program to determine what the reduction in capital outlay warranted.

Egerton, John.  A fascinating and important book about race relations, human rights, politics, and other issues, it includes a discussion of the Mink Slide riot in Columbia in 1946.

Foreman, Clark H.  This discusses the Mink Slide riot and the reaction to it.

Greene, Lee Seifert.  This is the standard biography of Governor Frank Clement who grew up in the Duck River watershed.

Harrington, Oliver.  This discusses the 1946 Mink Slide riot at Columbia and the execrable state of race relations in the South.

Ikard, Robert W.  No More Social Lynchings.  Robert W. Ikard, who is a Nashville surgeon and a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School.  He is also a native of Columbia.  "On February 25, 1946 in Columbia, Tennessee, a minor disagreement occurred between a white, politically connected store clerk and a back navy veteran and his mother.  This incident led to the first race riot in the United States after the war.  The riot, which took place in the black section of Columbia known as Mink Slide, fomented national outrage and involvement of numerous interested parties including Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, the NAACP, the Communist Party, and the U.S. Department of Justice.  Chaos and legal resolution of the Columbia riot resulted in death, destruction, and surprising trial verdicts."  Robert Ikard provides a detailed, objective examination of the event that continues to haunt his hometown.

"Interesting Facts about the Yanahli Wildlife Management Area."  This document provides a list of cultural history about the Yanahli Wildlife Management Area.

Johnson, Guy B.  This tries to explain and understand why the Mink Slide riot occurred.

May, Vaughn.  This work discusses the second-term administration of Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington from 1967 to 1971. Ellington, an avowed segregationist when he campaigned for his first term in 1958, transformed into a racial moderate during his second term.

McKusker, Kristine Marie.  This is a discussion of the career of Minnie Pearl of Hickman County, Tennessee.

Metress, Christopher.  This work reviews Gail Williams O'Brien's The Color of the Law: Race, Violence and Justice in the Post-World War II South (1999), which focuses on the 1946 race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, showing how that incident reflected the change of attitudes about race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South.

Minor, Robert.  This document concerns the race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1946.

O’Brien, Gail Williams.  This work examines the race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1946.

Payne, Weldon.  Examines the role of the UT Space Institute at Tullahoma and its relationship with NASA.

Rowan, Carl T.  Rowan, an African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for blacks in the region.  He examined hot spots of racial tension---including Columbia, Tennessee, which was the scene of the 1946 Mink Slide race riot.  He also returned to the setting of his more personal trials in McMinnville, Tennessee, his childhood home.

Sherman, Joe.  The book is about the Saturn automotive plant at Spring Hill.

Sloan, Gene.  Sloan was a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean who covered the Tennessee Maneuvers in World War II.

Squires, James D.  An intriguing, fascinating, and frustrating book about shady politics in Tennessee during the era of Boss Crump, it includes an interesting discussion of the Mink Slide riot of 1946.

Sumner, David E.  In 1960, a CBS news crew went to Nashville to make a documentary, Anatomy of a Demonstration.  This caused a racial demonstration, according to Governor Ellington.  The historical evidence is less clear but, apparently, there was an agreement by black leaders to allow only CBS to film training sessions for demonstrators.  This training included simulations of violence.