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.

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Rita Hester

The origins of Transgender Day of Remembrance can be traced to the killing of Rita Hester on November 28, 1998.

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Ce Ce Acoff

A transgender woman who was killed when an intimate partner discovered that she was transgender and stabbed her in 2013

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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.

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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.

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María

Enslaved woman in Spanish-controlled Philippine Islands killed because she refused a man’s advances

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