State of Florida Vs. Ruby McCollum, Defendant: The 1952 Murder Trial Made Famous by Zora Neale Hurston (Electronic book text)

The complete annotated trial transcript of the famous trial of Ruby McCollum, an African American woman who murdered her White physician and senator-elect lover in the Segregationist South. Trial was covered for The Pittsburgh Courier by Zora Neale Hurston, who had studied the practice of "paramour rights," the unwritten law of the Segregationist South that gave a White man the right to force a Negro woman to have his children, whether she was married or not. Ellis maintains that Hurston's earlier study of paramour rights attracted her to this case.