Daughter Loretta Ruby Mccollum Children

African americans were kept in second class status until the passage of civil rights legislation in the mid 1960s.

Daughter loretta ruby mccollum children. In 1952 the community of live oak fla. Followed his father into gambling and in 1975 was convicted in federal court on 10 counts of gambling. Leroy adams a white doctor and member of the state senate in florida. Ruby was tried found guilty imprisoned and lost her mind there and was removed to a mental health facility.

The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c. Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them. Adams for years and was pregnant with his second child at the time of his murder. Ruby testified that she owed dr.

On the day of the shooting ruby had opened a bill addressed to her husband sam. Clifford leroy adams and shot him four times with a revolver. He had paid her 40 000 for the right to feature her in a movie he hoped to have adapted from his book about the case ruby mccollum. Sam mccollum jr the son of ruby and her husband who resided in his childhood home until his death in december 2014 declined to meet with the film crew not wanting to talk about his mother.

Ruby mccollum was a wealthy african american woman whose story unfolded before the country s eyes in 1952 for the murder of dr. She then drove to the office of clifford leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect. What she did in the time between is anyone s guess. Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman.

The couple raised four children sam jr sonja kay and loretta whom ruby said was the child of dr. Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr. White men taking sexual advantage of black women. On the quiet sunday morning of august 3 1952 ruby mccollum the richest black woman in the town of live oak florida put two of her children in the backseat of her blue chrysler.

Leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect the judge restricted her testimony but she did testify as to their sexual relationship and his paternity of her child. As is the location and occupations of those children. In july of 1951 ruby had a daughter loretta and according to ruby s testimony this was adams daughter not sam s. To this day the actual bill has never been produced as evidence.

Woman in the suwannee jail 1964 4th edition. It was alleged that ruby was being sexually abused by dr. The amount of the bill is unknown. What happened to loretta mccollum.

Leroy adams continues to baffle people to this day. Mccollum did get to see her children again. She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room. On a sunday morning august 3 1952 ruby mccollum who was the richest african american woman in suwannee county and had grown up in marion county walked into the office of sainted white physician dr.

The strange case of ruby mccollum.