“It was sort of the best-kept secret in Cuthbert,” said Lela Phillips, author of the Lena Baker Story. In 1941, Baker worked for a white man by the name of Earnest Knight. The job turned into ...

Lena Baker, a black woman who died aged 44, was convicted of killing white employer Ernest Knight. She admitted killing him, but only in self defence. The all-white, all-male jury took a day to find ...

Lena Baker was convicted of shooting Ernest B. Knight, a mill owner she was hired to care for. While Baker claimed it was self defense, the jury of 12 white men found her guilty. Saturday ...

Curry is the great-grandnephew of Lena Baker ... Georgia. Baker, whose story was the subject of a film by writer-director Ralph Wilcox, claimed the killing of E.B. Knight, whom she worked for ...

In 1944, Lena Baker was working as a maid in Cuthbert, Georgia for a man named Earnest Knight. Baker, a Black woman, was abused and held in near slavery by Knight. One evening Knight attacked ...