1. **Global Statistics**: Approximately one-third of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime.

2. **United States**: In the U.S., about one-third of women who are murdered are killed by an intimate partner. Furthermore, women endure approximately 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes annually.

3. **Disproportionate Impact**: Young women, low-income women, and certain minority groups are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence and rape. 

After the Civil War, during the Jim Crow era, black women faced unimaginable hardships, including brutal beatings, horrific murders, and unimaginable suffering. The names listed on this page are just a few of those women, and their stories are a testament to the atrocities they endured.