On 3rd August 1952, she was convicted of shooting the doctor to death in Live Oak, Florida.
Ruby accused him of sexually assaulting her for six years and forcing her to bear him a child.
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Black people believed her testimony because between 1900-1950’s, most black women in the South who gave birth to mixed-race children encountered sex slavery. Photo: granny_st (modified by author)Source: Twitter
Keith Black, a state attorney, prosecuted and convicted Ruby of first-degree murder.
Read on to find out everything about Ruby’s tribulations in the hands of the racist judges.
Ruby was born on 31st August 1909 in Zuber, Florida, and married Sam McCollum in 1929.
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Buck had made a lot of money from running the Bolita gambling business.
The family also sold liquor, grew tobacco, and owned a few juke joints.
Ruby McCollum house was a two-story house while one of her children studied at UCLA.
The white community believed she killed him to dodge a $116 medical bill. Photo: DiscoveryIDSource: Twitter
On the other hand, RubyMcCollum documentaryNetflix,The Other Side of Silence, was produced in 2012.
In his book, William revealed that the whole jury that pronounced Ruby’s death sentence was white.
She walked into the office, pulled out a .38 caliber pistol, andaimed the bullet athis head.
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Ruby explained that her youngest child, Loretta, was his.
Judge Hal W. Adams sustained all the thirty-eight objections.
Later, the State attorney Randall Slaughter agreed to a second trial as filed by the defense attorneys.
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Ruby’s lawyers also requested court-appointed physicians to examine the mental state of the defendant.
Dr. Dillard Workman was an accomplice of the heartless doctor Ruby killed.
Moreover, he campaigned for him in the senatorial race.
Newspaper reporter, Zora Neale Hurston, published Ruby McCollum story, including the murder case trials. Photo: SamanthaQueenoSource: Twitter
Workman also testified before the court that she was insane after conducting an autopsy on his friend’s body.
Frank Cannon appealed McCollum’s release from themental hospitalin 1974.
It is alleged that The State Mental Hospital at Chattahoochee caused Ruby McCollum death.
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Ruby passed away on 23rd May 1992 because of a stroke.
She died in New Horizon Rehabilitation Center a year after her brother, Matt, died.
Ruby waslaid to restbeside Matt and behind the New Hope Baptist Church.
Ruby McCollum daughter Loretta pictures are all over the internet to date. Photo: BlkGenius1Source: Twitter
The story of Ruby McCollum is one of a kind.
Time and forgiveness have healed old wounds because human beings have learned to respect each other.
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