#rubymccollum

[pokeythakidd]

Ruby McCollum, have you heard of her? No? Well she was born ruby Jackson born in 1909 outside Florida. Zuber, Florida to be exact, she was the second child among six siblings. Although she started out attending the local segregated schools, she was moved to a private school where she excelled. In 1931 Jackson married Sam McCollum, and they moved to Nyack, New York. By the 1940s early 1950s, the McCollums had a fortune from selling burial policies and owning a funeral home, in addition to Sam and his brother running a gambling and liquor business. Which is what made her one of the wealthiest women at the time in live oak, Florida.

***Brief summary on her & how she became known:***

African Americans were kept in second-class status until the passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s. White men taking sexual advantage of black women had a long history, dating back to the time of slavery. This was called “paramour rights” at the time of the trial.

On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum met Dr. Leroy Adams, a white physician and state senator-elect in his office, which is where the murder took place. Ruby stated that over a period he had repeatedly forced her to submit to sex and that her youngest child, was fathered by him. It was discovered in letters that Adams had abused her and that she was pregnant with another child by him during the time of the shooting. Black anthropologist and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston was the first person to report on the trial outside of Florida. Her coverage led to national and international attention to the story. Due to a all-white men jury, some of whom were former patients of the doctor, so when Mrs. McCollum presented her case

despite considerable evidence of the abuse of McCollum by Adams, the all white jurror found her guilty of 1st degree murdered & was sentenced to the electric chair. However her case was appealed.

At the second trial, McCollum’s attorney, Frank Cannon, had McCollum enter an insanity plea. McCollum was then declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and was sent to Florida State Hospital. She stayed there until 1974, when she was released.

McCollum lived in the New Horizon Rehabilitation Center, a rest home in Silver Springs, Florida, until her death from a stroke on May 23, 1992. She was eighty-two & lived 18yrs as a free woman after being released.

Side note: Not encouraging violence just showing how one took back control of her life, at a time where having no control was more of the norm for those of the darker shade(Deeply melanated) . For that reason alone we going to celebrate this woman as the royal/courageous individual that she is. Also this just another example of not only a man but in this instance a white man who felt superior and above another individual as if he was entitled to this human being.

Ps This situation is also in my opinion someone saying “have a choice” to hear more of her & her story watch the documentary it’s called “You belong to me: Sex, Race, and Murder in the south”

#TCPTapeComin #TBCPTape #TBCPSoon #TPMjustthemessenger #TPMDaily #ThaKiddzPokey #TPMForeva #indiginousAncestry #DeeplyMelanatedHistory #RubyMcCollum

[wikkedscorpion]

Reposted from @valeriaannwatson #rubymccollum #valeria_watson #ashevilleartist - #regrann (at Duke Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiNZbWnx4z/?igshid=pklq0omww8wu

[wikkedscorpion]

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Reposted from @thedanielleyoung Meet #RubyMcCollum, the first Black woman to testify against a white man who raped her and fathered 2 of her kids. Ruby also murdered him, bringing light to #ParamourRights, an unwritten law they allowed white men the right to use any Black women they wanted, for sex. #WomensHistory #TheOverExplainer #DaniWorks #EssenceVideo - #regrann (at Duke Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiLr3qAj-6/?igshid=151adtgoas5a3

[wikkedscorpion]

Reposted from @phylicia_rashadfanpage #flashbackfriday Phylicia Rashad played #zoranealehurston alongside @violadavis (as #rubymccollum ) at the @publictheaterny in #everybodysruby (1999). Directed by @iamkennyleon. #flashback #fbf #thespian #theatre #theater #theatreislife #credits #actress #PhyliciaRashad #violadavis #publictheater #playbill #criminalcase #drama #offbroadway #NYC #90s #finewomenfriday #harlemrenaissance #murdercase #harlem #1950s #writer #play #reallifestory #3women (at Duke Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiLenZH1E7/?igshid=6mm660shst15

[brandonimhotep]

Ruby McCollum was arrested and convicted in 1952 for killing Dr. C. Leroy Adams, a prominent white doctor. On the quiet Sunday morning of August 3, 1952, #RubyMcCollum, the richest black woman in the town of #LiveOak, #Florida, put two of her children in the backseat of her blue Chrysler. She then drove to the office of Clifford Leroy Adams, a prominent white doctor and state senator-elect. She parked, walked in the “colored entrance” and through the office waiting room. She pulled a .38 caliber pistol from her pocketbook, and shot the doctor dead. White townspeople would say that McCollum was trying to dodge a medical bill, but McCollum would claim that she’d been sexually victimized by the doctor for years, and forced to bear his child. The murder and the national attention garnered by the subsequent trial brought to light the open secret of rape in the South, and dredged up many other issues the town of Live Oak had long kept buried. The judge, who was a pallbearer at Dr. Adams’ funeral, imposed a gag order on McCollum, prohibiting her from giving interviews. Furthermore, the press was barred from the courtroom. But Hurston sat daily in the segregated balcony, scribbling the notes that became “The Life Story of Ruby McCollum,” a multi-installment report. In it, she wrote with nuance about not only the testimonies, but the underpinnings of racial prejudice that warped the entire proceeding. Ruby was married to an industrious man named Sam McCollum, who, along with his brother Buck, ran a highly profitable gambling ring. The family also sold liquor, grew tobacco on a nearby farm, and owned a few juke joints. The couple was known by nearly everyone in town. They lived in a two-story house, where they raised four children, one of whom was studying at UCLA at the time of the murder. During her trial, Ruby testified that the youngest, Loretta, was the child not of her husband Sam, but of Dr. Adams. She claimed the doctor had raped and assaulted her for years, forced her to bear his child, and threatened to kill her if she didn’t bear him another. (SWIPE LEFT) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9LiwzMgo1C/?igshid=1cvwpfb2pi2gs

[sablesouls]

In the segregated South, Ruby and Sam McCollum lived quite well for African-Americans at that time. In a house that was described as a “two story mansion” by C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D. & Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D. in The Trial of Ruby McCollum, it was suspected that Sam made his money through Bolita, a lottery-type gambling game that was easily rigged. The McCollums were known throughout town as “good pay,” always paying bills on time and never indebted to anyone, black or white. The gossip about town was that Sam had begun cheating on Ruby and, in an effort to exact revenge, Ruby had begun a sexual relationship with Leroy Adams. In July of 1951, Ruby had a daughter, Loretta, and according to Ruby’s testimony, this was Adams’ daughter, not Sam’s. #mistreatment #civilrights #murder #doctor #rubymccollum #blackhistory #sablesouls #sammccollum #bolitas #thetrailofrubymccollum #florida

[sablesouls]

⚜️Ruby McCollum⚜️, born Ruby Jackson, was a wealthy married African-American woman in Florida known for killing a prominent white doctor in 1952 who had been elected to the state senate. On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into the colored waiting room of Dr. C. Leroy Adams’ office in Live Oak, Florida. By the time she walked out and returned home, Dr. Adams had been shot three times in the back and once in the arm. A case that officials wanted to chalk up to a bill dispute quickly became a matter of something else, crossing into civil rights issues, “paramour’s rights,” and mistreatment of the mentally ill. #rubymccollum #florida #statesenate #doctor #murder #civilrights #mistreatment #mentalill

[barkinet]

#case #RubyMcCollum #mccollum @barkinet