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3 unusual facts about Ruby McCollum


Ruby McCollum

McCollum was declared mentally incompetent and incarcerated for 20 years in the Florida State Hospital for mental patients at Chattahoochee, FL.

Zora Neale Hurston covered the trial for the Pittsburgh Courier from the fall of 1952 through Ruby McCollum's conviction just before Christmas.

It was there that Sam's brother Buck had amassed considerable wealth managing a Bolita gambling business.



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