Jessie B Reed
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Cook, 1919-1921, 1923, 1927-1928
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Katie Trefon Williams
American who recounted subsistence ways of living in the early 1920s and 1930s
Martha S Bingaman
Yosemite National Park Ranger, 1926-1928
Charlotte Margaret Rumbold
Active in urban planning in two cities: St. Louis, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio
Ou Shee Eng
Despite her immigration detainment and the long-term consequences of the exclusion era, Ou Shee and the women around her table lived lives of courage and strength. Their legacies survive among their daughters and granddaughters who built a homeland in America for the Chinese immigrant community.
Marie
Enslaved Native American tried in Trois-Rivières for attempted murder and suicide and sentenced on 29 Dec. 1759 to be hanged.
Elizabeth Butler
1600s countess of Desmond and Lady Dingwall
Elizabeth de Burgh
Irish heiress of Ulster in the 1300s
Lena Baker
Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be executed in Georgia’s electric chair. She was executed in 1945, after she was convicted of murdering a man who had imprisoned her.
Rosa Lee Ingram
Rosa Lee Ingram was an African American woman whose 1948 murder conviction, along with the conviction of two of her adolescent sons, raised doubt about the integrity of Georgia’s judicial system. Civil rights organizations launched an ambitious campaign to free the Ingrams in the years that followed.