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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 ]
María Josefa Segovia Morón (10 October 1891 - 29 March 1957) was a Spanish Roman Catholic and the co-founder of the Teresian Institute that she established alongside Father Pedro Castroverde. [1] Morón devoted her life to the functioning of the institute in Spain and served as its first director until her death.
Josefa Segovia, a young Californio resident of the town, was lynched by a mob on July 5, 1851. [9] The lynch mob held a mock trial, and accused her of killing an American miner. The mock trial quickly led to hanging her from the Jersey Bridge in town. [7] Segovia was the first and only hanging of a woman in the history of California. [10]
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Rebecca Ann Felton (née Latimer; June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, politician, and slave owner who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, serving for only one day.
Alianza Federal de Mercedes, [1] which in English translates to Federal Land Grant Alliance, was a group led by Reies Tijerina based in New Mexico in the 1960s that fought for the land rights of Hispano New Mexicans.
Las Mujeres Muralistas ("The Muralist Women") were an all-female Latina artist collective based in the Mission District in San Francisco in the 1970s. They created a number of public murals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and are said to [by whom?] have sparked the beginning of the female muralist movement in the US and Mexico.
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, author of Desert Blood; Adina Emilia De Zavala; Lorenzo de Zavala; Abelardo Delgado, author of Letters to Louise (1982) [1]; Mike Durán, author of Don't Split on My Corner (1991) [1]