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Plot. 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. Baker acted in self-defense in the ...
- Hope & Redemption, by Lela Bond Phillips
- Ralph Wilcox
- Dennis Johnson, Ralph Wilcox
Trama. Il film racconta la vita di Lena Baker che lavorava come domestica in una piccola città per mantenere i suoi tre figli. Uccise per legittima difesa il suo datore di lavoro e venne condannata nel 1945 per omicidio alla pena capitale da una giuria di soli bianchi divenendo l'unica donna in Georgia ad essere giustiziata sulla sedia elettrica.
- 106 min
- drammatico
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
In 2005, sixty years after her execution, the state of Georgia granted Baker a full and unconditional pardon. A biography was published about Baker in 2001, and it was adapted for the feature film The Lena Baker Story (2008), chronicling the events of her life, trial, and execution.
- 3
- June 8, 1900, Cuthbert, Georgia, US
8 apr 2008 · 849. 217K views 15 years ago. 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...
- 3 min
- 217,6K
- Hunter Via
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.
Synopsis. Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945.
- 100 min
