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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.

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

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



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