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 ...

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Josephine Baker, at the age of 57, flew from France to perform at the March on Washington in front of 250,000 people. Entertainer Lena Horne, 46, also used art as activism by singing “Freedom ...

Lena Baker was executed in 1945 for killing a white man whom she testified had regularly beaten and raped her. In 2005, Georgia granted Baker a formal pardon.