Rosa Lee Ingram

Rosa Lee Ingram
BornJuly 23, 1902
DiedAugust 5, 1980 (aged 78)

Rosa Lee Ingram (July 23, 1902 – August 5, 1980) was an African-American sharecropper and widowed mother of 12 children in Georgia, who was at the center of one of the most explosive capital punishment cases in U.S. history. In the 1940s, she became an icon for the civil rights and social justice movement.

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