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ricksaunders · @ricksaunders
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Instagram - Black History Unlocked on Instagram: "In 1945, Lena Baker, a mother of three, was electrocuted at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, GA. Baker was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white-Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke his leg.  Baker was 44 and the only woman ever executed in Georgia’s electric chair.  For Baker, a Black maid in the segregated south in the 1940’s, her story was a tough sell to a jury of 12 white men.  Rumors that she was romantically involved with victim E. B. Knight did not help.  Her murder trial lasted one day, without a single witness called by her court-appointed lawyer. Baker was convicted and sentenced to death. John Cole Vodicka, director of an Americus-based inmate advocacy program known as the Prison and Jail Project, said Knight had kept Baker as his "virtual sex slave." She was his paramour, she was his mistress, and, among other things, his drinking partner. If you read the transcript and have any understanding of Black-white relations, Black women were often subjected to the sexual whims of their white masters, their white bosses, or some white man who had control over their lives or the lives of their families. "Here is one who resisted and paid the price.” The undertaker who brought her body back to Cuthbert buried her in a grave that went unmarked for five decades, until the congregation of Mount Vernon Baptist Church raised $250 for a concrete slab and marker. Baker, who had a sixth-grade education, stated publicly her innocence to the very end. “What I done, I did in self-defense," she said in her final statement. "I have nothing against anyone. I am ready to meet my God.” Six decades after she was executed for killing a white man in the Jim Crow South, Baker was granted a full and unconditional pardon in 2005. Source: https://aaregistry.org/story/lena-baker-executed"

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