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.
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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.
Mary Ann Finegan
Vctim of anti-gay violence in Cleveland.
Brittany Stergis
A transgender woman who was killed in 2013.
Betty Skinner
Transgender woman killed in 2013
Rita Hester
The origins of Transgender Day of Remembrance can be traced to the killing of Rita Hester on November 28, 1998.
Ce Ce Acoff
A transgender woman who was killed when an intimate partner discovered that she was transgender and stabbed her in 2013
Mary Paul
Mary Paul was one of a handful of young single women to live at Red Bank’s North American Phalanx, a middle-class utopian community.
Sarah J Rudolph
Sarah J. Rudolph lost her right eye and her little sister, Addie Mae Collins, in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
María
Enslaved woman in Spanish-controlled Philippine Islands killed because she refused a man’s advances