Ruby McCollum, a wealthy African-American wife, finds herself pregnant a second time by her white physician lover. Torn between her husband, who threatens to shoot her if she has another white baby, and her lover, who threatens to shoot her if she aborts his child, Ruby chooses to murder her lover. Ruby's trial took place in a time when there were no controls over the judge who abrogated her First Amendment Rights, yet her testimony--appearing here in print for the first time--sounded the death knell of "Paramour Rights," the unwritten Antebellum law declaring a white man's right to take a black woman as his paramour, whether she was married or not.
WORKING PRESS MAY OBTAIN COMPLIMENTARY COPY FROM CHARLENE MCGLASHAN AT (800) 839-8640 ext. 244. PREVIEW AT WWW.RUBYMCCOLLUM.INFO. Authors are invitational guest speakers at the Miami Book Fair International, 2003.
Holiday, FL (PRWeb) August 11, 2003 -- C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D. and Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D., announced today the publication of their latest book, available from the 1st Books Library.
Now you can read the story of sex, greed, and murder that held a small north Florida community hostage for fear of "community embarrassment" at the subterranean relationships existing between "coloreds" and "whites" in the Segregationist South of the 1950s.
I had the feeling that the trial was a conspiracy of silence. The real story took place behind a curtain of secrecy.
--Zora Neale Hurston
Dr. Ellis has courageously taken a candid look at a tragedy in our history that was left unresolved. This is a must read for all Afro-American historians.
--Derrick KeithWatkins
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About the Authors: Art and Leslie Ellis have numerous publications to their credit over their 35 years of marriage, including self-help books, novels, and screenplays. During their tour of China in 1988, their work appeared in China Daily. The Trial of Ruby McCollum is a story close to Art's heritage since he grew up in Live Oak, the small north Florida town where the murder took place, and knew the central characters in the drama.
Over the years, William Bradford Huie's account of the murder has been the only source for the reading public wanting to know what really happened on that hot August day in 1952 when Ruby McCollum walked into the office of Dr. C. Leroy Adams and shot him four times with her nickel-plated, .32 caliber Smith & Wesson.
Now, readers can enjoy a closer look at this intriguing story--told here for the first time by someone who lived through it--and take a front row seat at the trial that shook the foundations of the Segregationist South.
Publication Information :
Trade Paperback Size: 6 x 9 554 Pages
Price: $25.95 Publication Date: Aug-2003
Authors: C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D. and Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D.
ISBN: 1-4107-7544-5
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