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The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, born to a sharecropper family, who later worked as a maid in a small county town to support her three children. Convicted in 1945 of capital murder by an all-white, male jury, Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair.
Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.
Apr 10, 2008 · Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story: Directed by Ralph Wilcox. With Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker. A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
The Lena Baker Story. Based on true events, THE LENA BAKER STORY recounts one African-American woman's struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her impossible circumstances.
Jul 8, 2020 · Lena Baker was an African-American woman convicted of killing her white employer Ernest Knight by the State of Georgia in 1944 at the age of 44. The only woman executed in Georgia’s electric...
Jun 2, 2020 · 131K views 3 years ago. Story of the first woman to be executed in the state of Georgia. ...more.
Based on the true life story of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery,...
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Jun 1, 2001 · The justice system should pay her children for a wrongful death and apologize to he family. Lena Baker was not judge by a juror of her peers but by a group of racist white men who knew very well what Ernest Knight did to her keeping her as a slave and using her as he saw fit.
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The Lena Baker Story. Lela Bond Phillips. Wings Publishers, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 103 pages. "This is the story of the first and only woman to be legally executed...
The story of Lena Baker, the only woman put to death by an electric chair in the state of Georgia is still being set straight in the small town of Cuthbert.
