72 Years Ago, Ruby McCollum murdered the White doctor who raped her. Now her story is being retold

New Pittsburgh Courier: Few stories are as gripping and notorious as the tale of Ruby McCollum and Dr. Clifford Leroy Adams Jr., a physician and senator-elect who never made it to take his elected seat. He never took office in Florida because he was shot dead by McCollum, a Black woman who pleaded to a jury that she killed Adams because he had been raping her and forced her to have his child.