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Claudette Colvin, arrested in March 1955, nine months before Parks' arrest, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated Montgomery bus. Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 , home of Rosa and Raymond Parks, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure.. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 27 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles.The father was found at his son’s bedside. One victim told a relative that he did not ...
The younger brother then tried to get the 15-year-old to fight, and the older brother refused. The two were separated by an uncle who was in the home and made the 14-year-old go outside.
A 32-year-old Mansfield woman who was pronounced dead at 9:52 a.m. April 14 at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital after being transported from the Richland County Jail died of fentanyl intoxication ...
Susan Carol McDougal (née Henley; born June 27, 1955) is a real estate investor who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy.. Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court.
An Indiana woman who weighed 340 pounds killed her 10-year-old foster son by sitting on him for “acting up” and now will head to prison. Jennifer Lee Wilson, 48, has been sentenced to six ...