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. Its in this courthouse in 1952 where a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum was found guilty by an all-male, white jury for the murder of a prominent […]
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. Its in this courthouse in 1952 where a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum was found guilty by an all-male, white jury for the murder of a prominent white doctor and state senator-elect, Clifford Leroy Adams. McCollum was found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair before a court decades later freed her after declaring her insane, and the race and gender issues that permeated the case are the focus of a new documentary You Belong To Me that compiles a decade of research and first-time interviews with surviving family members on both sides. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)