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Civil Rights Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0334
Abstract
The Civil Rights Collection brings together papers and publications from individuals and organizations, as well as over fifty hours of taped interviews with civil rights participants. Individuals include Charles Haynie, Buford Posey, Sidney Redmond, Walter and Elizabeth Rogers, and Claude Williams, among others. Organizations include ACLU, CORE, SCEF, SRC, and several others. The collection includes a wealth of pamphlets, organized by topic, and newsletters, organized by title. Documents...
Dates:
1910-1979
Don Paine Collection of State of Tennessee v. Maurice Mays
Collection
Identifier: MS-3056
Abstract
This collection contains the materials collected by Tennessee lawyer Donald F. Paine about the murder trials of Maurice Mays in 1919 and 1921. Mays, a black restaurateur and former deputy sheriff of Knoxville, was convicted of the murder of a white woman named Bertie Lindsey in 1919. He was executed by the state on March 15, 1922, despite the concerns of respectable white and black citizens as to a fair trial and doubts about his guilt. Three series within the collection contain photocopies...
Dates:
1905-1926, 1983-2007 (bulk 1920's, 2006)
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- African American college students -- Tennessee. 1
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- Civil rights -- Periodicals. 1
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- Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Haywood County (Tenn.) -- History. 1
- Mississippi Freedom Project. 1
- School integration -- Southern States. 1
- Segregation in higher education -- United States. 1
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals. 1
- Student movements -- Tennessee. 1
- Trials (Murder) -- Tennessee -- Knoxville. 1
- United States -- History -- 1919-1933. 1
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