The Lena Baker Story

Hope amp Redemption The Lena Baker Story is a 2008 film adaptation of the book by Lela Bond Phillips that chronicles the life and death of Lena Baker, an AfricanAmerican woman in Georgia. It was written for the screen and directed by Ralph Wilcox.

The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, a young maid and mother of three. Convicted in 1945 of murder by an allwhite, male jury, she was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair. She had claimed selfdefense in the fatal shooting of her employer, Ernest Knight, an abusive drunk who had forced her into a sexual relationship.

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