Lena Baker never had a chance. She was a poor and barely educated Black woman in southwest Georgia in the early 1940s, with few options. So when she wrestled a gun away from Ernest B. Knight ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...