LIVE OAK, Fla. -- On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through the "colored entrance" of a doctor's office in the small north Florida town of Live ...
‘Ruby - The Musical’ brings the scandalous, untold story of Ruby McCollum to Detroit. The true, scandalous story of Ruby McCollum is the focus of “Ruby - The Musical,” an original production presented ...
Caught Between Two Guns and Hall of MIrrors: Confirmation and Presentist Biases in Continuing Accounts of the Ruby McCollum Story The trial the shook the foundations of the Segregationist South.” — C.
Ruby: The Musical is based on a true story in 1952 in Live Oak, Florida, that focuses on the life of Ruby McCollum — an affluent Black woman who’s been accused of murdering a white doctor who was also ...
DETROIT – During Black History Month this weekend, an exciting musical called Ruby will make its debut in Detroit. It’s the powerful, untold story of an affluent Black couple in Live Oak, Florida, in ...
In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 photo, Suwannee County court clerk and local historian Eric Musgrove stands in front of the county courthouse in Live Oak, Fla. It s in this courthouse in 1952 where a ...
"Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric -- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum -- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence ...