Tag: Amazing Women
Lena Baker – A 1944 Trial, A 2005 Pardon, and a...
The Only Woman Executed in Georgia's Electric Chair: Lena Baker's 60-Year Fight for Justice. The facts, then. Lena Baker was born on June 8,...
The Ivory Bangle Lady: A Black Woman in 4th Century Roman...
The facts, then. In 1901, workmen digging in Sycamore Terrace, York, discovered a stone sarcophagus. Inside was the skeleton of a young woman. She...
Marion Stokes – The Woman Who Recorded 35 Years of Television
The facts, then. In November 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, an African-American woman in Philadelphia named Marion Stokes did something that would consume...
