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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.
The Lena Baker Story è un lungometraggio del 2008. Il film è ispirato alla vicenda di Lena Baker, una cameriera afroamericana ingiustamente condannata a morte per omicidio.
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.
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...
1 giu 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.
- Lela Bond Phillips
10 apr 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.
