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5.13 Silenced in the South: Ruby McCollum and the Murder of Dr. Adams

  • arossmann02
  • May 26
  • 1 min read

Ruby McCullum
Ruby McCullum

In 1952, Ruby McCollum left two of her children in her car as she casually walked into a doctor's office in Live Oak, Florida, and shot Dr. C. Leroy Adams — a respected white physician and newly elected state senator. But what seemed like a clear-cut case of murder over a disputed medical bill soon unraveled into a story of power, race, sexual violence, and silence in the Jim Crow South.


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