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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.
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. Venne presentato in anteprima durante la serata di apertura dell'Atlanta Film Festival 2008 ed è stato proiettato al Festival di Cannes del 2008.
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.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Ralph Wilcox
- 2008-04-10
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.
8 apr 2008 · The Lena Baker Story was written, directed, and produced by Ralph Wilcox. It is based on a true story and was inspired by Dr. Lela Bond Phillips' book Lena ...
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5 gen 2011 · Tichina Arnold plays the title role in The Lena Baker Story, about a Georgia woman tried for killing her White employer. Baker (l) was the only woman to be executed by electrocution in Georgia. As a young girl in the early 1900s, Lena Baker and her mother pick cotton in rural Cuthbert, Georgia.
Nel 2001 fu pubblicata una sua biografia da cui venne tratto un film, The Lena Baker Story, che racconta le vicende della sua vita, del processo e dell'esecuzione.
