Tag: Summer of Love

• On This Day in 1851 – Josefa ‘Juanita’ Segovia, rough justice or legal lynching?

  

    Present-day California is often seen as the most liberal, tolerant state in the Union. It‘s sold with images of sunshine, surfing, and hippies; a relaxed, easy-going kind of place where, within reason, anything goes. This is a fallacy. While 1967 might have been California’s ‘Summer of Love’ July of 1851 wasn’t. Certainly not for…

  CrimeScribe

  July 5, 2020

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