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Johnson was the one who suggested that the magazine be named for the dark wood. [4] By the time of her death, Ebony reached a readership of 1.25 million, and its weekly companion Jet reached a circulation of 900,000. She was a great influence to a lot of African Americans. [4]
Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of America in 1977. [ 2 ] Her final appeals and the last three months of her life were chronicled by filmmaker Liz Garbus in the documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002).
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the main witness at the center of the 1955 trial surrounding the lynching of Emmett Till by two white men, recently confessed to having lied in her testimony against the ...
Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in Martinsville, Indiana, a sundown town. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
DNA found under the California woman’s broken fingernail helped lead to the man’s conviction, the district attorney said. Mom strangled to death with pantyhose, officials say. Decades later ...
Keshia Thomas (born c. 1978) is an African-American woman and human rights activist known for a 1996 event at which she was photographed protecting a man believed to have been a Ku Klux Klan supporter.
After serving 27 years in prison for crimes she did not commit, 74-year-old Joyce Watkins Nashville, Tenn., was exonerated this month, her convictions in the murder and sexual assault of her 4 ...
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after attempting a self-induced abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States.