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\nLena Baker a Black mother of three, was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She 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...\nLena Baker a Black mother of three, was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She 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. In that town, Knight was viewed as brutal and abusive. ⁠
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At her trial she claimed that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she attempt to leave, whereupon she took his gun and shot him.⁠
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Rumors that she was romantically involved with the victim did not help. Neither did the fact that she acted in self-defense. Instead, a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945 becoming the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.⁠\n
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1:46
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9th - Higher Ed
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Social Studies & History
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\nThe Black History Buff\n\n
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2022
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English
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georgia, crime, american history, african american history
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