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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. [1] She is known as the first recorded Mexican woman to be lynched in California. [ 2 ]
Hernandez and his lawyers decided to take the case to the US Supreme Court. The Hernandez v. Texas ruling declared that illegal Mexicans and other cultural groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution .
Josefa Segovia: about 25: Latin: Downieville: Sierra: California: July 5, 1851: Killing a white man: She was found guilty of murdering a local miner, Frederick Cannon, a man who had attempted to assault her after he had broken into her home. [16] Robert S. Maynard: 21: White: Jacksonville: Rogue River: Oregon Territory: May 1852: Killing of J.C ...
Exactly one year ago, a small town was left shocked after a neighbourhood became a crime scene. Police arrived at a house in Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich to find the bodies of four people ...
United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court determined it was a violation of the Fourth Amendment for a roving patrol car to stop a vehicle solely on the basis of the driver appearing to be of Mexican descent. [1]
On January 23, 1999, 2-year-old Teekah Lewis was abducted from the New Frontier Bowling Alley in Tacoma, Washington. The Tacoma Police Department is investigating.
Three other men have also been charged in the case. Alton Harrell, 63, was arrested on Jan. 17, while Daniel Burke, 63, and Robert Eccleston, 63, were arrested on Jan. 24.
Las Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "The White Caps") was an clandestine organization active in New Mexico Territory in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Often characterized as vigilantes and in response to the Santa Fe Ring of land speculators, ranchers, and homesteaders, mostly Anglo-Americans, Las Gorras Blancas protested the takeover of former common lands of Hispanic residents by acts of ...