Book Banned in North Florida: Zora Hurston's Account of Segregationist History Repeats Itself With Publication of The Trial of Ruby McCollum

Following the release of The Trial of Ruby McCollum (preview at www.rubymccollum.info), the authors were warned by the editor of a north Florida newspaper and a store in Lake City where a book event was planned, that the authors would not be welcomed because of the "sensitive nature of the material." After the store owners cancelled the booksigning, the authors reported the incident to the store's national headquarters.

(PRWEB) August 14, 2007 -- The Trial of Ruby McCollum: The true-crime story that shook the foundations of the Segregationist South. Ruby McCollum, a wealthy African-American wife, finds herself pregnant a second time by her white physician lover. Torn between her husband, who threatens to shoot her if she has another white baby, and her lover, who threatens to shoot her if she aborts his child, Ruby chooses to murder her lover.

Ruby's trial took place in a time when there were no controls over the judge who abrogated her First Amendment Rights, yet her testimony--appearing here in print for the first time--was believed by Zora Hurston to sound the death knell of "Paramour Rights," the unwritten Antebellum law declaring a white man's right to take a black woman as his paramour, whether she was married or not.

Zora Hurston covered the case for The Pittsburgh Courier in a series of articles before William Huie responded to her invitation to join her during McCollum's appeal to the Florida Supreme Court, primarily because of the difficulty of functioning as a "colored" reporter in the Segregationist South of the 1950s.

Drs. Art and Leslie Ellis are invitational guest speakers at the Miami Book Fair International, 2003.

To order, call tollfree: 1-888-280-7715 or from e-bay, search topic "Ruby McCollum." Available through most online booksellers.

Author contact: www.rubymccollum.info

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