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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]
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...
15 lut 2017 · Josefa Segovia—also known as Juanita and Josefa Loaiza—was the first and only woman to be hanged in California. A Mexican woman living in the mining town of Downieville, she was accused of murdering Frederick Cannon, a miner, on 5 July 1841, and was summarily hanged from a bridge over the Yuba River.
21 gru 2022 · In 1851, a Mexican woman named Josefa Segovia was lynched in Downieville, California, after being accused of stabbing a white man who had been harassing her husband and herself. Her last words were, “I would do the same again if I were so provoked.”
2 mar 2019 · In one episode in 1851, a mob hanged Josefa Segovia in Downieville, Calif., after she stabbed an Anglo man who tried to assault her.
The summaries consist of narrative accounts that are also plagued by errors, beginning with the very first case presented, that of “Josefa Segovia,” a young Mexican woman who was lynched in Downieville, California, in 1851 (p. 21).
The experiences of three women are assessed: Josefa Segovia, Peb Falls, and Laura Nelson, alongside her son L. D. Nelson. The argument is made that these women resided in environments conflated with racist, sexist, and classist convictions, as well as the contributing factor of dehumanization specifically associated with the lynching of Black ...
