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Riots -- Tennessee -- Knoxville

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

"Mad Dogs" broadsheet

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2021.028
Scope and Contents

Printed broadsheet declaring all dogs to be under quarantine for ninety (90) days starting July 26, 1919 by order of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Dogs must be muzzled or tied up for the entire 90 days. Penalty of $50-$250 for failure to comply. Reverse has handwritten list of names. Many of the names involved in the August 30, 1919 break in at Knox County Jail in an attempt to reach Maurice Mays.

Dates: 1919

Paine, D. “Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays”.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.2019.004
Scope and Contents

Paine, D. “Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays” (Photocopy of notes distributed for a talk before the Knoxville Bar Association 14 December 2006).

Dates: 1919; 2006

‘Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays’ by D. Paine. 2006. (ephemera)

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2006.012
Scope and Contents

‘Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays’ by D. Paine, KBA Lunch and Learn. December 14, 2006. Photocopies of illustrations used in PowerPoint presentation. 9 pp, Thursday, December 14, 2006 Calhoun’s on the River Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays Speaker: Donald F. Paine, Paine, Tarwater, Bickers & Tillman

Dates: 2006