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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was executed by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. [1] She was found guilty of murdering a local miner, Frederick Cannon. She is known to be the first and only woman to be hanged in California. [2]
28 lis 2017 · What began with parades and a speech from the state’s first governor ended with the lynching of Josefa Segovia, the only hanging of a woman in California state history. After a full day of guzzling mining camp swill, Joe Cannon and a few other drunks were out banging on doors around Downieville.
5 gru 2019 · Dec. 5, 2019 3 AM PT. DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. — The young Mexican woman walked to her death with a firm step. Her face betrayed no fear as she climbed the ladder to a scaffold on a bridge overlooking...
Ms. Valencia and other descendants of lynching victims are now casting attention on one of the grimmest campaigns of racist terror in the American West: the lynching of thousands of men, women and children of Mexican descent from the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century.
15 lut 2017 · Josefa’s treatment – both her lynching and the way in which her identity and version of events were obscured – reflects the oppression of and violence towards Mexicans in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Siren shows Josefa's precious last moments as she gathers her strength to face a lynch mob, injustice and death. The papers called her "Juanita" to try to erase her but Josefa's act of self defense made her a legend.
28 cze 2019 · Josefa was then escorted to the Jersey Bridge or the Durgan Bridge, where she slipped the noose over her head and walked out on a plank that was then cut out from under her. There are many accounts of what happened to Cannon, why Josefa stabbed him, and why she was lynched.
