PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/67114.xml PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Zora Neale Hurston and The Trial of Ruby McCollum http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/02/prweb501764.htm In 1952, Zora Neale Hurston covere the trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy "colored" woman who murdered her white senator-elect lover. Hurston wrote that this was a landmark trial, marking the first time that a woman of color was allowed to witness to the paternity of her child by a white man who forced himself upon her. (PRWeb Feb 5, 2007)

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]]> Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/02/prweb501764.htm Strom Thurmond and "Paramour Rights" in the Segregationist South (Holiday, Florida, December 19, 2003) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/12/prweb95301.htm Strom Thurmond lived in an era when many white men practiced "Paramour Rights" in the Segregationist South, taking on a "colored" mistress and fathering children by them, free of any legal responsibility. (PRWeb Dec 19, 2003)

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]]> Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/12/prweb95301.htm The Trial of Ruby McCollum: The True-Crime Story That Shook the Foundations of the Segregationist South! http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/08/prweb74002.htm 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--sounded 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. WORKING PRESS MAY OBTAIN COMPLIMENTARY COPY FROM CHARLENE MCGLASHAN AT (800) 839-8640 ext. 244. PREVIEW AT WWW.RUBYMCCOLLUM.INFO. Authors are invitational guest speakers at the Miami Book Fair International, 2003. (PRWeb Aug 11, 2003)

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