Maury County Archives
201 E 6th Street
Columbia, TN
2025 Lecture Series
The 2025 Lecture Series, Hidden Figures of Maury County, will continue on July 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM. See the July Newsletter and our Facebook™ page for updates on the Hidden Figure we will be exploring!
AAHS Quarterly Lecture Series
Since 2013, the African American Heritage Society of Maury County has scheduled a lecture each quarter. Authors, historians, subject-matter experts, and professors of history from Fisk, Middle Tennessee State, Tennessee State, and Vanderbilt Universities, speaking to diverse audiences, discussed different aspects of African American history, such as activist and politician, the civil war, education, the great migration, and religion.
2024 - African Americans Making History
Tra'Darious Goff​
Bernard Childress
Brandon Levier
Raymond Bonner
Devin Simlar
Sheryl Y. Sweeney
Chris Poynter
Johne K. Stewart
2023 - Democracy In America
Tom Price
Zachary Kinslow
Dr. Learotha Williams
Rev. Barry Cox
Ms. Anntonette Hardison
Rev. Verlene Jones
Dr. Rose Q. McClain
2022 - Doctors & Lawyers
Delisa Minor Harris
Assistant Director of
Library Services at Fisk University
Dr. Learotha Williams
Professor of History
Tennessee State University
Dr. Daniel Sharfstien
Professor of History and Law
Vanderbilt University
Sandra Parham
Executive Director
Meharry Medical College
2021 - The World of Sports
Dr. Harriet Kimbro Hamiltion
Professor at Tennessee State University (retired) and author of “Daddy’s Scrapbook: Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball League A Daughter’s Perspective”.
Columbia Boxing Club
Members of the Columbia Boxing Club are pictures with founder and boxing coach, Dr. Morgan Hines. Pictured (L-R): Jeremy Pillow, Dr. Morgan Hines, Aholu Pillow, and Alonzo Washington.
2020 - Women’s History
Dr. Christa Martin
Vice Mayor of Columbia, TN
Dr. Carole Bucy
Professor of History
Volunteer State Community College
Dr. K. T. Ewing
Professor of History
Tennessee State University
Dr. Antoinette van Zelm
Assistant Director of the
MTSU Center of Historic Preservation