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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. [2]
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 ...
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The hanging of Josefa Segovia (Juanita) in Downieville 1851. In complete disregard of her identity, she came to be known as "Juanita" after her death, a stereotypical name for a Mexican woman. In complete disregard of her identity, she came to be known as "Juanita" after her death, a stereotypical name for a Mexican woman.
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 ...
Coolio was married to Josefa Salinas from 1996 to 2000. They shared four kids, daughters Artisha, Brandi, Jackie and son Artis, who costarred with him on the 2008 reality series Coolio’s Rules .
After his death, Angela, the mixed race woman who lived with him, allegedly used her voodoo religion to "curse" the Klansmen who killed him and during the next few years, they supposedly all died under mysterious circumstances. [3] In 2019, the city of Key West gave him a memorial service and a military headstone.