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.

[2] Ingram farmed adjoining lots with white sharecropper John Ed Stratford in Schley County, Georgia, near Ellaville.

On November 4, 1947, Stratford confronted Ingram, accusing her of allowing her livestock to roam freely on his land.

[9] The sentencing of Ingram and two of her sons to die in the electric chair was handed down by an all-white, all male jury on February 7, 1948.

When the defendants' executions were scheduled for February 27, 1948, less than three weeks later, the U.S. erupted in protests against the trial and sentences, which had been conducted in haste and secrecy.

[10] In response to national protests led by Sojourners for Truth and Justice, the trio's sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in April 1948.