Josefa Segovia
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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Californio woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, United States, on July 5, 1851. She is known as the first recorded
Artist's impression of Segovia's hanging, from William Downie's Hunting for Gold, published 1893
Chicana feminism
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Chicana feminism is a sociopolitical movement, theory, and praxis that scrutinizes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic intersections impacting Chicanas and the Chicana/o com
Josefa Segovia
…United States, on July 5, 1851. She is known as the first recorded Mexican woman to be lynched in California. Josefa is also an important figure in Chicana feminist theory as her case highlights the violence that Mexican women were facing at the time and the resistance against it. Beginning in 1835, a dispute between…
Las Chicanas Poster at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Mexican children in a segregated company housing facility in Corcoran, California (1940)
Mendez v. Westminster (1947) overturned de jure racial segregation in schools. The case was initiated when Sylvia Mendez (pictured) was turned away from enrolling at a "white school." Mexican American children, especially of darker skin, were only permitted to learn manual skills education, while white schools taught academic preparation. At the "Mexican schools," girls were only taught sewing and homemaking.
A young woman talking with a group of young men in El Segundo Barrio, El Paso (1971)