Emma Cook

Emma Cook, a 54-year-old Black woman, was killed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Christmas Eve in 1983. Her death came during a period when women in the city's predominantly African American northwest neighborhoods had been living under the shadow of repeated sexual assaults and killings. Cook was sexually assaulted, severely beaten and strangled, leaving her family with the devastating task of identifying and burying her during what should have been a season of celebration. Her granddaughter, w ...