Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby Mccollum
, by Ellis, C. Arthur, Jr., Ph.d.- ISBN: 9780982094006 | 0982094000
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/30/2009
In 1952, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Live Oak, Florida, to cover the trial of a black woman accused of murdering the town's only doctor, a white man. Drawing on Hurston's newspaper coverage, Ellis recounts the sensational trial.