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Author: C. Arthur and Leslie E. Ellis Publisher: ISBN: 9781411664661 Category : Languages : en Pages : 552
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This is the true crime story of the famous Florida murder case in which a wealthy African-American wife murders her white physician and senator elect lover in the Segregationist South. It contains a novella recounting the story and the full transcript of the trial--the only copy that currently exists. This edition is spiral bound and printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with wide margins for students to make notes.
Author: C. Arthur and Leslie E. Ellis Publisher: ISBN: 9781411664661 Category : Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
This is the true crime story of the famous Florida murder case in which a wealthy African-American wife murders her white physician and senator elect lover in the Segregationist South. It contains a novella recounting the story and the full transcript of the trial--the only copy that currently exists. This edition is spiral bound and printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with wide margins for students to make notes.
Author: C. Arthur Ellis Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 9781410775443 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 521
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Includes condensed version of unpublished novel "Caught between two guns," a fictionalized version of Ruby McCollum's story; edited and annotated transcript of trial; and summary of subsequent appeal proceedings.
Author: Tammy D. Evans Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813059798 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 196
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"This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury the history of so many southern places and people."--Rebecca Mark, Tulane University The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in American history. On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand. In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder--a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions. To ensure this would become the official version of events, McCollum's trial prosecutors voiced multiple objections during her testimony to limit what she was allowed to say. Employing multiple methodologies to achieve her voice--historical research, feminist theory, African American literary criticism, African American history, and investigative journalism--Evans analyzes the texts surrounding the affair to suggest that an imposed code of silence demands not only the construction of an official story but also the transformation of a community's citizens into agents who will reproduce and perpetuate this version of events, improbable and unlikely though they may be. Tammy Evans is an adjunct professor of composition at the University of Miami's Bradenton campus.
Author: C. Arthur Ellis Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 9781665739191 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 0
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On a hot Florida summer day in August, 1952, Ruby McCollum, the wealthy African-American wife of Suwannee County's Bolita King, murdered Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a beloved white physician and recently elected state senator. The sensational murder trial was widely covered in newspapers ranging from the New York Times to The Times in London, and was the first of its kind since 1855.Now the story of a forbidden interracial love affair gone wrong is recounted by an author who was a neighbor to the McCollum family and delivered by Dr. Adams. Dr. Ellis' odyssey to discover the truth behind the murder began with locating the lost transcript of the trial--which was both manually transcribed and wire recorded. He then published an annotated copy to discredit statements by some scholars that McCollum was not allowed to testify in her own defense.In the Afterword of this book, Ellis now addresses McCollum's most telling statements to her attorneys-- "I was caught between two guns," and "I don't know whether I did right or whether I did wrong"--and proposes an intriguing moral alternative to societally defined concepts of "right" and "wrong" for African-Americans who lived in the Jim Crow South.
Author: Michael J. Carr Publisher: Gadfly Publishing ISBN: 0982094086 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 205
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This full color edition of the Hall of Mirrors is the most thoroughly researched work on the Ruby McCollum story published since the work of William B. Huie. Written by the author who first published the annotated transcript of the murder trial, this work explores recent attempts to revise Ruby McCollum's story to suit the motives of various authors, academics and film producers. Hall of Mirrors avoids the confirmation and presentist biases found in other works and presents this captivating story in its proper historical context. It is a "must read" for anyone seriously interested in the facts of the case, but is guaranteed to offend those who steadfastly deny Ruby McCollum’s innocence in the face of overwhelming facts.
Author: C. Arthur Publisher: ISBN: 9781411605251 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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Presentation to the Florida Historical Society, 2004. Contains approximately 40 pages of photographs related to the Ruby McCollum story, the famous Florida murder case in which a wealthy African-American wife kills her white physician and senator-elect lover.
Author: C. Arthur Ellis Jr Publisher: ISBN: 9780982094044 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 492
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Premiering on November 18 in the 2014 season of the Discovery Channel's A Crime to Remember, this murder stole the headlines of every newspaper in 1952. It is the sordid tale of an African-American wife who murdered her white lover on a hot August Sunday in 1952, and the ensuring trial that shook the foundations of the Segregationist South. The murder was a crime of passion, as Ruby McCollum burst through the "colored" entrance of Dr. Adams' office and shot him 4 times during a heated argument, shortly after he was elected to the Florida State Senate. Rumors spread that the murder was over a doctor bill, yet the McCollums were wealthy operators of the illegal gambling operation known as "bolita," and were always known for paying their bills. It was only later that "outsiders" were to discover the true motive for the murder, and rip through the thin veneer of Southern civility to expose the sordid world of liquor, gambling, drugs, sex and illicit dealings between "whites" and "coloreds" that lay beneath the surface. The ensuing high profile trial in Live Oak, Florida hit the headlines of all the major newspapers of the time, and marked the first time that a woman of color was allowed to take the stand and witness against a white man who forced her to have his children. Now readers can review the full testimony allowed Ruby McCollum during her trial. Zora Hurston covered the trial for the Pittsburgh Courier, the newspaper with the largest circulation to African-Americans at that time. Largely lost to history, this landmark trial was given new life when Dr. C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., who knew all of the characters in the story, published the first edition of this work in print, proving to the world that McCollum actually testified during her trial while all other sources deny that she did (Full transcript in State of Florida vs. Ruby McCollum, Defendant, available on Amazon). Now, readers can enjoy the beauty of this color illustrated Kindle Fire edition, and download it free through the Kindle Matchbook program if they have previously purchased the print edition on Amazon. Drawing on Hurston's newspaper coverage of the trial and interviews with town residents, Ellis-a Live Oak resident himself-recounts the sensational trial. He alternates between the first-person voice of Hurston herself and a narrative of the backstory of the love affair and fortunes made in a small town on illegal gambling and drugs. --Vanessa Bush Booklist (American Library Association)
Author: Michael J Carr Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 456
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Many African Americans living along the banks of North Florida's Suwannee River still refuse to eat catfish caught from its murky waters, knowing that these bottom feeders had at some point dined on the decaying corpses of their lynched relatives.This book chronicles how bolita, from its birth in segregationist Suwannee County in the 1930s to its death in the 1950s, spilled Blood on the Suwannee.Bolita's first casualty was the surreptitious murder of a prominent white bolita queen in the 1930s that inadvertently led to the expansion of bolita and bootleg liquor in the county.The second casualty-the untimely drowning death of fifteen-year-old Willie James Howard at the hands of Klansmen for the crime of sending a Christmas card to a white girl-is the little-known legacy of an African American Everyman in the segregationist South.The third casualty is the nationally publicized 1952 murder of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a white physician and state senator-elect, by Ruby McCollum, the black wife of the county's bolita king.