McCollum, Ruby, approximately 1915-
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In 1952, Ruby McCollum, a black woman shot and killed her white lover, prominent Live Oak, Florida, physician C. Leroy Adams. Her subsequent conviction and death sentence (1954) were later overturned by the Florida Supreme Court, but she was declared mentally incompetent and incarcerated for many years in a mental hospital. Zora Neal Hurston covered the trial for the Pittsburgh Courier and collaborated with William Bradford Huie whose book, Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail.
(New York, 1956) is the principal account of the case.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/16647420
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2006007634
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n2006007634
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7376349
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Criminal courts
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal procedure
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Trials (Murder)
Race discrimination
Social justice
Women murderers
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Florida
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Suwannee--12121
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