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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.
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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]
Usually mutualistas had separate women's auxiliaries, but some, including Club Femenino Orquidia in San Antonio, Texas and Sociedad Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez in Laredo, were founded and run by women.
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Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California, United States.Established in 1970, Self Help Graphics served as a critical locus of activity during the Chicano art movement and is a center for Chicano and Latino artistic production.
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.