Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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...