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Alonzo Philmore, Harry Campbell, Ruby McCollum

In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 photo, Alonzo Philmore, left, Harry Campbell, center, and Suwannee County NAACP president Leslie White stand in front of their church in Live Oak, Fla. In 1952 a ...
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Dr. C. Arthur Ellis, Jr. Sets the Record Straight on the Crime of Ruby McCollum

Caught Between Two Guns and Hall of MIrrors: Confirmation and Presentist Biases in Continuing Accounts of the Ruby McCollum Story The trial the shook the foundations of the Segregationist South.” — C.
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The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South / Tammy Evans ; foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster ; afterword by Lynn Worsham

"Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric -- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum -- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence ...
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Eric Musgrove

In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 photo, Suwannee County court clerk and local historian Eric Musgrove stands in front of the county courthouse in Live Oak, Fla. It s in this courthouse in 1952 where a ...