You Belong to Me: Sex, Race and Murder in the South

Synopsis

In 1952 Ruby McCollum, a black woman, killed her white doctor in Live Oak, Fla after years of sexual abuse. The remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades.

Top cast

Anita Davenport

Ruby McCollum (voice)

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Denise Durette

Ruby McCollum

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Reggie Brooks

Sam McCollum

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George Jacobsen

William Bradford Huie (voice)

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John Sherman

Clifford LeRoy Adams