This collection houses Donald Paine’s research materials and resulting article regarding the case of Tennessee v. Daisy Alexander Root. Among these materials are derivative newspaper articles from The Commercial Appeal and the Memphis Press-Scimitar, copies of court documents from the Shelby County Criminal Court and the Tennessee Supreme Court in Nashville, a contemporary article, Murder in Memphis, by Michael Finger (published in the March 2002 edition of the Memphis magazine), and a 2008 book entitled Memphis: Murder & Mayhem by Theresa R. Simpson (chapter 10, The Cigarette Girl, is about Daisy Root). Also included are Donald Paine’s notes and correspondence relating to the trial and a contemporary Memphis street map showing the murder location.