"I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Mother." "Mom!" "Please talk to me mother." "THE STORY OF LENA BAKER" "What's wrong?" "Please tell me mother." "Please!" "Mom, what's wrong?" "Go get Mr. Candice." "30 APRIL 1944, CUTHBERT, GEORGIA" "Say you need to see it." "Yes, mother." "I'll call Mr. Candice." "I'll get it." "23 MARCH 1910, CUTHBERT, GEORGIA" "subtitles Waldir Lopes" "I am so proud of you, Lena." "Thank you, Sister Lena, for this beautiful song." "That's right." "Brethren, now let's talk about a great man." "He called himself Goliath." "He was a giant." "Men feared this giant man." "But there were a couple shepherd named David, to whom God gave five stones." "Five stones." "He put one of these stones in his sling." "And shot once   then twice   and shot the third time   and let the rock fly." "He hit the old Goliath well on the forehead." "And that big giant fell." "hit the ground." "No one would say ..." "I never heard this story giant of a man." "It's true!" "The Rev. James spoke of him in the church." "It was never a no church." "Why not speak of the Lord?" "I do not want to hear stories giant men." "David was a child." "And killed him with stones small that the Lord had given." "David asked for help." "And all that God gave him were rocks?" "I do not think any help." "What the two chickens are cackling?" "It is better to work before the boss sees them playing." "Here he comes!" "I do not want no stone." "Give me a rock!" "Something funny, Nettie?" "No, sir." "Stop meddling with these girls, Royal." "Go back to work." " have not picked cotton today!" " Yes, sir." "It was not him." " What you say, girl?" " I said nothing." "I was talking to you, Royal?" "I'll give you a lesson!" "I do not talk more with them." "It's what you want, sir?" " Do you like your job, boy?" " Yes, sir." "So you better be careful with the language." "Are you listening?" "Go back to work has not done anything!" "Yes, sir." "Sorry, Royal." "You do not have guilt." "Come on, Lena." "This girl will still get you in trouble!" "Nettie just want to play." "Do not go in the direction of the ruins, not stumble on the rocks." "Do you hear me?" "Take this cotton!" " How are you, Annie?" " I'm fine, Mr. Powell." "I always liked to work in their fields." " It is the best cotton in the neighborhood." " Thank you, Annie." "step tomorrow at home and help my wife with the children?" "Bring the Lena, too." " The Jessie likes to play with it." " It is very good, sir." " Lord!" " Look for it in the horse away!" "Hop on the wagon!" "What now, Mom?" "Take this time, Lena." "Chicken Feet!" "Barrel of ink." "Can you see the ball well, Lena?" "More or less." "Only when comes in my direction." " You see my hand?" " Yes, sir." "And Danny up front?" "Can you see him?" "You are unclear but I see well!" "a problem, Mr. Powell?" "No, it's okay." "We're only seeing one thing." "Try these, Lena." "What do you think of Danny?" "As if you were nearby." "Do not be exaggerated, Lena." " Listen to what Mr. Powell says." " It's okay." "You can have these glasses." "I have another pair at home." "Thank you, Mr. Powell." " Thank you, Mr. Powell." " De nada." "You're funny with glasses of my father, Lena!" "Now you can continue the game." "Her eyes look great even, Lena." "Go there, Jesse." "I'll see if now I can catch the ball." "Yeah!" "Got!" ""He made me lie the green pastures."" "He made me lie the green pastures." ""I drove up to Rs calm waters."" "I led ..." "What are "smooth water"?" "It is when the water are calm and quiet." "You know when you run the house and I say, Lena!" "Sit down." "Be quiet." "Stop this mess!" "It's like water." "When the water is very calm, is quiet, quiet, serene." ""I drove up to Rs calm waters."" "I drove up to Rs calm waters." "refreshed my soul ..." "Here's more, mother." "Thank you, dear." "Do you want more coffee, Mr. Candice?" "No, thank you, Lena." "What is a "funeral", Sr. Candice?" "The mother says that is the work." " Lena!" " It's okay, Annie." "When people die, the undertaker is the man who prepares for the funeral." "You see people when they are dead?" "I see, yes." "The souls of them are already with the Lord." "And my job is to take care of the remains mundane." "I still do the work of God." "I have to do with respect." "That's enough, Lena." "Give Mr. Candice in peace." "Yes, ma'am." "I'm full of carry water." "You will get very thirsty." "TEN YEARS LATER I!" "I will move to the city." "To one of those houses behind the court." "With a water pump the backyard." "No ..." "How will pay a house like this?" "If you have a bomb, I can wash clothes." "I know that people in the city pay more than the interior." "How do you know that?" "I know more than you think." "What do you know?" "I know you have to come with me." "What you gonna do?" "Singing in the choir all my life?" "I like." "The Rev. James said I have a sweet voice." "And who will listen?" "You here?" " Do you think we?" " I know I will succeed." "You have to talk to herself." "The mother will be furious." "Tell her that goes with me." "And you think will be furious with what?" "It's Royal!" " Royal!" " No!" "No!" "I do not want the dogs feel I smell on you." "Get out!" "I killed a man!" "He would kill me!" "Was going to kill me." " I shot and he fell dead on the floor!" " Then say so!" "It was a blank." "Who will believe me?" "Take it here, Lena." "Run away from the Ozarks." "Go home there." " Come on, Nettie!" " Nettie!" "Go!" " Royal!" " We gotta go." "This is not the place for you." "Follow north!" "Run as soon as they can." "Go Lena!" "Lena!" "Wake up, Lena!" "Nettie?" "What are you doing out here?" "It is the Royal." "Did not return home." "He's not coming back, Nettie!" "They say they went to the city and I'll find it." "I'm with you." "If my mother gets me, I'll get again." "I do not know why I walk always behind you." "Where do you get this mix?" "It is the Royal." "He says he takes the pain." "What is that light there?" "Come on." "Wait!" "Nettie!" "My God!" "My God." "No, Nettie!" "No!" "We can not do anything." "Let." "Let's go." "2 MAY 1944" "Here it is." "Sheriff Haney?" "I can go home talking with my children?" "There are two days that nobody speaks with me, since I held." "I know someone who was here for me to bring this change of clothing." " Can I go?" " No." "You can not go anywhere, especially as things are." "You are scaring me, Sheriff Haney." "I know it's you who in charge here." "You can not do anything to help?" "Not much comfort to give you, Lena." "Cuthbert is a small town." "All the world knows." "I told you to stay away and it did not do it!" "But Mr. Arthur wanted to kill me." "Just did what I did to stop killing me." "Mr. Arthur was a bad man." "is not so simple, Lena." "And you know it." " Why?" " Why?" "Because Elliot Arthur was white!" "I have to explain this?" "But he wanted to kill me!" "Well, then   is exactly what should to tell the judge in court." "For the time being will be in this cell." "Where is safe." "Nobodyknowshowitis." "This whiskey is better than that mix that we drank." "What horror!" "Even the pond water was better than that!" "You'll stay up all night sitting there, Nettie?" "Do not go dancing?" " That depends." " What?" "If you have something to more than that smile." " I have what you need." " Should be talking about money!" "Will this do?" "It seems that whenever I have the shoes dance shoes." " Come on, baby." " Let's talk!" " Will sing again, Lena?" " I hope so." "Nettie says that when we go to the north, will sing a serious club." " You have a beautiful voice." " Thank you." "I remember when you used to sing in church." "Why am I talking to you without a drink in his hand?" "It was good to see you again, Rudy." "Come back soon." "Their faces are new." " We heard this place ..." " are in place." " Who wants to go first?" " I." "It will not have to wait long." "Lena is almost." "Drink anything." "Where did you get this scar on the face, dear?" "It was my sister." "Hit me with a hoe as a child." "Okay." "Let." "Hello!" " It seems to me about you." " It seems so." " See you, Lester." " You bet." "Are you ready?" "What the hell is this brothel?" "Where are the women?" "They're all busy, Mr. Arthur." " They are all color?" " Yes" "Well, that hand would make a difference." "There's no whiskey?" "I do not know, sir." "How you think it will cost go north?" "Maybe twice what we already have." "This is a long time." "And many white boys." "What?" " What?" " I said nothing." "Hold it." "I know that look!" "If you have something to say, say." "Say!" " There are other ways to earn money?" " Washing clothes?" "Doing cleaning?" "We were going to take years to make money to go to the north." " I say this about ten times." " Not right!" " I can not go to church à Sunday." " Damn, Lena!" "My mother has not talk to me!" "And I hate the way the people look at us." "White people and people color." "Take!" "We have to sleep a few hours!" "Come on." "Sheriff Haney?" "Can we do something for you?" "I came close this house, Nettie." "I have received complaints." " What do you mean?" " Stuck!" "Go down there right now." "Let's go!" "Down." "Are you sure you can not do anything for you, Sheriff Haney?" "Take your hands off of me and in the car." "Move it!" "Has anyone else here?" "Those were Lena and Nettie!" "The judge gave me ten months of labor." "It's time!" "They had to Nettie a farm in Millersville." "This morning." "I'm going to a place Miller County." "Sorry, Mom." "I'll take that!" "Come on." "Come on!" "Read this!" "Perhaps you might help." "It will give a great feast of Easter, this Sunday, Mrs. Riddel?" "The family of Mr. Riddel Atlanta come here." "has five children." "All young." "Newest must be the age of Lena." " You have had news from Lena?" " No, ma'am." "Do not tell me that the sentence was ten months?" "You should be back home." "I think this is the weekend." "Thank God." "I thought of Lena." "I read an article in the newspaper, the other day, about the harsh conditions of the farms for forced labor." "Men and women chained as if they were animals." "And we say we are Christians." "Tell à Lena she is in my prayers." "Yes, ma'am." "The Lincoln Jones said you'd be here." "Lena tomorrow comes home." "Yes" "Praise be to God!" "Reverend?" "Mrs. Riddel said   that are chained   men às women, in that prison?" " Is it true?" " I've heard so." "What those currents are heavy for men." "I do not know how God gives strength rs women to endure." "Chained?" "To all those men?" "My God!" "These chains put down many men." "You know that Lena will not be the same back home." "You will need her mother." "I hold you, darling!" " Mom!" " I got you." "You're already at home!" "Sorry, Mom!" "I know." "You're still my girl." "That's my girl!" "How is the Earl?" "6 MAY 1944 E Alice Lee continues to cough?" "See if Sammy will à school," "Calm down, girl." "Let's talk about it all." "A week ago no talking to anyone." "Sheriff Haney came here once but it's all I know." "The Max Arthur was in the city talking about you and his father." "I wanted to believe that you are the walking annoying." "But that's not true!" "I held the wiring and said kill me if I tried to leave." " He said it would harm my children!" " I know, dear!" "How do I get out of here to see my children?" "I do not know, daughter." "But now I do not think this is possible." "How long have you say to go to the farm?" "How long will give me for killing Mr. Arthur?" "It'll be worse than the work forced, Lena." "You need to know that." "What are you saying, Mom?" "No!" "Oh, no!" "My God!" "Help my girl!" "Look at Lena with the boys." "19 JULY 1941" "I never see this day!" "Amen!" "She works hard, now." "Help me with the laundry   educate children in the Lord   but still has her struggles." "I imagine that she fled Nettie after the arrest had any thing to do." "I think so." "But that farm à hurt Lena." " Very bad, Abby." " I suppose so." "Rs times it still comes à head." "It's when you start drinking and is difficult to give you a hand!" "Get the whole arm of God, and be able to prevent evil the day." " My daughter!" " Amen" "Are you hungry?" "Brought a meal." "Here come get him, boy!" "Run as if you were hungry!" "Me and Abby go walk a little." " I'm hungry!" " Let's see what grandma brought!" "What was one giant, mother?" "More than our church?" "I think so." "But I never saw a giant." "But David killed him!" " Really?" " How did you get?" "He found some stones put them in a sling and and shot!" "How can a stone kill a giant?" "It was a simple stone." "David had the Lord with him." "When we have the Lord with us, we can do anything." " You know what I think?" " What, Mom?" "I think the love of David the Lord was so powerful, what became those stones." "But were not the stones." "Have you no fear of any giant." "And David knew that." "So not afraid." "Are you hungry?" "Are you sure?" "I know you're hungry, Alice Lee" "I got one!" "I got one!" "I'm so glad you have taken one!" "Come on, it's getting late." "We have to go." "This fish is quite large!" "It's a huge fish." "We do a picnic next Sunday?" "Lena?" "I really wanted to find you." " How are you, Annie?" " Well, Mr. Arthur." "I need you to take care of my father." "The fool broke his leg and needs to someone take care of him," "Now that the mother has died." "At the moment I'm busy, Sr. Arthur." "Helping my mother with clothes." "And you can continue but has also take care of my father." " Maybe I can go." " You're too old." "What if my father fall to the ground?" "Go get it?" "It has to be Lena." "Mr. Max, no think good idea ..." "The family of my brother is here for Thanksgiving." "Always help." "But on Monday I you start, you understand?" " Yes, sir." " Good." "Annie." "His father is a bad man." "Everybody knows." "Mr Elliot must be very old to cause trouble." "You are never too old to cause problems." "I will not make me some cause." "No problem, Mom." "Now, let's." " I'm hungry." " Me too." "You're always hungry." "On Monday, Lena!" " Mr. Arthur?" " Go ahead." "Mr. Arthur." "The Max Arthur sent me come help you with your leg and do some housework." " You should be well on top the leg?" " No!" "You should not be drinking." "Look!" "I know you." " We have already seen in the city." " No, no." "I know you from the other side." "It was you who had that brothel." "That was a long time." "I do not do these things." "Want a drink?" "It continues to do this, right?" "You drink?" "No, sir." "Also no longer do that." "Well, I drink." "But you know what?" "It's just a sip." "Do not do anything." "Not bad, was it?" "No, sir." " You can drink." " No, thanks." "Have you got wood!" "Buttons?" "You're talking about what?" "My father used to use wooden knobs." "I found one on the floor in evening he left." "Really?" "Let's make a toast to his father and wooden knobs." " Come on." " No thanks, Mr. Elliot." "You do not drink à health your father?" "I did not love your father?" " Of course I loved my father ..." " So?" "If you loved your father!" "Respect your father." "Right." "This will improve things." "Do not have the taste, girl." "I can smell it on you." "Come on." "Drink another." "No, thank you, Mr. Arthur." "I can not do that." "What housework want me to do?" "Well .." "... I want another drink." "You know you want." "Now it is your mother." "Come on." "We drink the father." "And your mother?" "Respect your mother." "Honor your mother." "That's right!" "You know that rs times you think you can give up certain things, but can not." " No." "Please, do not want." " Ready." "I look away!" "I do not do this!" "It's Okay." "I walk away." "A nightcap." "To say goodbye, a nightcap." "Now ..." "My son is paying you to take care of me, right?" "Yes, sir." "What kind of service is that the money it pays?" "Well .." "... is to wash clothes and do   some cleaning around here." "And what else?" "No!" "No longer do these things, Sr. Arthur." "You know my Emma?" "He died a year ago." "And I never liked that I drank." "She said: "I will live longer twenty years older than you."" "But what did she know?" " I miss my father." " I can see." "Well, my mother   beat me within a bag." "One day I managed to get out of the bag and when I looked at the door, my father was standing there." "It was the last day I saw him." " You miss your wife?" " I miss a lot." "My son giving me orders constantly." "What kind of man a woman leaves tell you what to do?" "But it is in my blood, you know?" "And pays for this service with his money." "I want to see if the money it is well spent." "No!" "No?" "No?" "This will be for good or worse." "Do you think going somewhere where I can not find you?" "This drink is not as a home network." "It's good whiskey." "You see?" "Let's get along very well." "A mother no longer had to be at home?" "She went to work." "Want to go get it?" "No." "Take these goats and go into dinner." " Yes, Grandma." " She should be arriving." "Come goat." "Wake up, Mom." "Wake up!" "Why is the mother smells like?" "Do not worry about it." "Go to school." "And go home What work to do." " A mother will be okay?" " You'll be great." "Now go!" "Wake up, Lena!" "Come on, you hear?" "Wake up, Lena!" "Let's wake up!" "How I got home?" "I found you on the road after midnight." "I was with my friend, mother." "Mr. Elliot gave me whiskey!" "I thought you had left it." "I do not want to go more work for Mr. Arthur." "Mr. Max pays me well to take care of his father, mother." "But stay away from Mr. Elliot." "He's no good and all world knows." "I can handle Mr. Elliot." "That man is poison for you, Lena." "It will probably kill you!" "Okay, Mom." "do not drink with him, you?" "I'll tell you that just going to work for him." "It will tell you that you go away." "Mom!" "We need the money." "I need the money!" "How long will take care of me and my children?" "I just want to give the best of me," "I can finally do something for me and do something for you!" "You have to let me do this." "OK?" "But you   can not return to drink with him, daughter." "And I will not." "I will not." "I'll tell him today." "OK?" "I gotta go get dressed." "... where I ... time for my clothes." " Damn!" " Mr. Elliot?" "Hey, Lena!" "Yesterday à night that was was not it?" " No, sir." " No?" " Do you feel sick?" " Yes, sir." "That's because you have no drink anything!" "No." "Can not go back to drink with you." "I'm here to work home and then have the my children at home." "All right." "Do as you." "But remember how a sip te takes the headache." " No!" " That's what you want." "You're lying if I said no." "You are mistaken, Lena." "But to me, do not fool me." "Make smoothly and quietly" "Have your man no find" "Do me a mattress in your room ..." "I have to go." "I gotta go." "Where do you have to go?" "My kids ..." "I'm sick of the damned children." "You will when I finish." "I gotta go ..." "This poor tree is strong, this year." "Thank you, Annie." "I heard that Lena is working for Mr. Arthur wiring?" "I never liked   Elliot Arthur or the family." "The Max, his son, walked at school with my Billy." " I think the ordinary ones." " Yes, ma'am." "The Lena is well working there?" "People talk." "It is the evil of small places." "But she wants to be there?" "I do not know, Mrs. Riddel." "She gets drunk and I do not know who she wants." "Nor did she know!" "My dear!" " Where is Lena?" "Working?" " No, you're home." " Are you sick?" " I think so." "I'm in a hurry." " Reverend." " Good morning, Annie." "Dick Jones said Lena not able to come today." "Are ailing?" "Yes, it was a difficult week." "I heard you're working a few months for Mr. Arthur." "Yes, sir." "I also heard that she spends much time there." "It seems so." " Say you feel the lack of it in ..." " I say, Reverend." "Excuse me." " God bless you." " I gotta go." "Earl?" "Sammy?" "Call your sister." "We have to go." "What?" "I am looking for Distributor of Lena." "Lena!" "You have to go home!" "You have to come take care of their children." " Lena!" " She is not interested." "Lena?" "Do you hear me?" "Get out." "Lena!" "Come home!" "Out of my property!" " Lena!" " Out!" "Or take a whipping!" "You know   when a boy   my father worked in wiring." "I spent all the time here." "I never went home." "I never took me hunting or fish." "He died right there next rQuel threshold." "I think I'm going die there." "Lena?" "Do you feel something for me?" "Father!" "What the hell you doing?" "You have no idea what people say about you?" " From the family?" " Are you angry with what?" " Get up!" " This is a friend of mine." "I hired to take care of my father did not return to sleep in his bed." "I'll tell you so nice." "Stay away from my father!" " If you caught near here ..." " It's okay, honey!" "Stop it!" " you hear me?" " Yes, sir." "Get out!" "Go away!" "You need to get wife and children." "You have to get any thing to do because no live here." "And you have to keep quiet." "I'll send you to Florida Barry and take care of their folly." "What do you think?" "Is everyone asleep?" "Do you like the cookies?" "They were good, Mom." "I can not remember the last time I ate." "Nothing like the Lord to send Mr. Arthur to Florida!" "Rs times it   locked myself in that wiring." "I even do 40 degrees inside!" "I was sick of drinking." "Neither knew where days were!" "But then he closed his eyes e. .." "... hear the crickets and frogs this porch." "How did his father!" "I got this old boot of his shirt." "He left it on the table on where left." "He rubbed it." "What brought me back!" "That was what made me hold the next minute." "But às times does not, mother." "I closed my eyes and rubbing this old radio button   but the crickets no sang to me." "And I wondered how many more minutes still have." "Every night I thought that he had killed you." "I could not stop thinking," "What would say to their children." "Now I'm free, mother." "Mr. Elliot leaves." "Rs Sometimes I think Nettie e. .." "in Royal." "I miss the Nettie." "Grandma!" "We are all free, baby." " I love you, Mom." " And I you, son." "Grandma?" "I'm going!" "I'm coming." "Thank you, Jesus!" "You come with me to to Florida!" "Quiet!" "I'll cut your throat, Lena." "To give me the glasses!" "Come with me." "Do not move!" "If not silence" "I come here one night," "I put a big rock in front of the door, and make a fire." "Do you understand?" "Do you understand?" "Freeze!" "No, Mr. Elliot!" "My kids need to me." " They need me." " And I do not need?" "I do not need?" "It's the last time I hear the damn kids." "Get off that chair and come go home!" " Please, no!" " Get up!" "No!" "Please!" "This guy!" "Lena?" "Lena?" "Lena?" "No, Lena!" "It was Arthur Max who hired her?" "30 MAY 1944" "Yes, sir." "He said how long expected that worked for his father?" "No." "And he spent six months on Florida with Mr. Arthur?" "Yes, sir." "she always kept locked?" "Not all the time." "Why not run away?" "If you want to be there and could get away, why did he?" "He said he was on my side." "I was court-appointed to represent this process." "So that makes me questions these, you're on my side?" "I was trying to think   just as the jury." "Mr. Elliot was always going to get me." "When we got back to the city, it does not matter if I could run away or he would lock." "When I wanted to, would pick me up." "It was because I wanted to stay." "I wanted to live." "He locked me and I was." "How long?" "About   three years in total." "He lived with him for three years?" "Has anyone ever told you that the state of Georgia," "It is illegal for a white man living with a woman of color?" "Yes, sir." "Sheriff Haney told me." "What did I tell you, woman?" "What I said was going to happen to catch you here again?" "No!" " Is this what you want?" " No!" " Look at me!" " But ..." " Is this what you want?" " No!" " Come on, son." " If you have to kill you, to prevent it from here that is exactly what I do." "Do you hear me?" "You're so angry why?" "Barry did nothing for you in Florida." "But can you believe what I'm going to do now!" "Get up!" "Get up!" "There's a person out who wants to see you, whore!" "Love is blind son." "Can not beat it!" "Lena?" "Can you hear me?" "People do not stop talking." "You can not get more time this wiring with Mr. Arthur." "There's a law that says white black and can not live together." "You have transgressed this law." "It is your last warning." "If you get here again, I have to arrest you." "And Mr. Elliot also?" "Have you ever heard." "Take your stuff and out of this property." "Leave the property of it!" "Come on!" "Fast." "Wait a minute, Lena." "Get in the car." "I give you ride to the house of his mother." "Grandma!" "Grandma!" "Is the mother." "Hurry!" "Come on, Lena." " You're already good, is at home." " My daughter!" "Who did this to you, Lena?" "It was Mr Elliot?" "The Max Arthur found it on their property again." "Take your mother home, boy." "It will not hold Mr. Max Distributor for what he did my daughter?" "I can not do anything." "She broke into the property the man!" "It will only be satisfied when Mr. Elliot and his family the kill!" "Annie!" "She was warned several times to stay away from them." " and kept coming back!" " He is that did not stop to pick up!" "You are the law." "You know what is right and what is wrong." "Sheriff?" "This is not over?" "What should we do?" "People of color do not have police." "Who do I call?" "Next time, not going to bring her home." "Next time, will bring it to the cemetery!" "Annie!" "Here." "Come on." "Come on, Lena." "I talk to him." "We do not usually see it here, Mr. Arthur." "We can do something for you?" "Why not go and let us pray for you?" "Blood of Jesus!" "Blood of Jesus!" "Grandma, we do sweet potatoes at Christmas?" " Those who make the fireplace?" " It seems a good idea!" "Put that down!" "Let." "Hurry." " Lena!" " Let's have problems." "My God, it's coming!" "It's coming!" "We have to pray." "She's still sleeping." "Go away!" " Lena?" " Mom, no!" " Lena, do not!" " Mother, please!" "Do not do it!" "I go outside and talk to him." "I'll make it go away." "Do not make me go in there!" "No, Mom." "Do not go, please!" "Mr. Arthur, you're scaring my children." "You have to go." "I can not go with you!" "Please, Mr. Elliot!" " Mom!" " Mom!" "10 JUNE 1944" " Mom!" " My children!" " Mom!" " Look at you!" "My God!" "Glad to see you!" "My boys!" "That's good, my children!" " They can only get half an hour." " Thank you, sheriff." "It's getting all so great!" "Come here, baby." "I'm learning to read, Mom." "Give me books in school and I read them at home." "Really?" " He reads to me" " Le?" "Let me be proud daughter." "When you come home?" "Not soon, dear." "I have trial August 13." "It is the day when the judge decides." "Why did you do this hairstyle in Alice Lee, mother?" "You have to make a braid it." "This is how she likes." "Read to me." ""Harry was lying in bed and Joe got up from his chair." ""This is very bad, he thought." ""The war in Europe worsened." ""The Yankees crushed German tanks." ""The attack occurred about two hundred kilometers from Paris."" "Here's one thing about a mother." "I read." ""The trial of Lena Baker starts next week."" "to e going to do a lot of questions." "It's about time!" "Are you ready?" "I think so." "Can we go?" "We are here." "Watch your step." "How about a ride?" "I am a good driver?" "How many times his father took a Lena to his home in Florida?" "I do not know." "Two or three times." "Why did not prevent him to do?" "To disgrace the family name." "A mix of races is illegal!" "Have you managed to keep the father to do something?" "I told him to stop to bring it." "If he had stopped, perhaps still alive." "Her testimony does not serve for nothing." "I'm going to take care of it." "I'll end it the same way it ended with the father." " Do you watch that trial?" " I put the "dot the i"!" "Wait!" "What do you mean?" "The paper speaks of Elliot A. as a saint, too old to defend themselves when the whole city knows that it is as bad as the day is long." "But you will make good what, dear?" "You will make a statement about something you know?" "I know what is right." "I read the newspapers and see what will happen à Lena!" "And no one bothering to with the truth of the matter." "The newspapers are full of news World War in Europe." "You can not expect that people to notice that a woman of color in South Georgia is having a unfair treatment." "I've noticed." "And you will testify about things you and your friends heard about Elliot Arthur?" "It will be your word against the four men who will testify." "Who will believe you?" "Why am I a woman?" "This is not right, Walter." "What is the sense of fighting a war the other end of the world, when people like are dying here at home?" "There's a big difference between what's right and reality." "But this ..." "is the world we live." "So we have to do a better world." "She just went, Reverend." "All rise!" "The Honorable Judge Winslow." "They can sit." " What are the weapons?" " Just to the show." "When I lived in Arizona called him "Two Weapons"." "Very good." "Lena Baker." "As you can see, we have a jury formed by pairs and can start." "The lawyers are ready to begin?" "The state is ready, Your Honor." "As the Defense Your Honor." "Let's do this." "The State called the witness John Candice, the investigating magistrate of the city." "you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, God help you?" "I swear." "Mr. Candice." "First, knows the defendant, Lena Baker?" "I know, yes sir." "She and her mother worked às times for my family." "They washed clothes and were cleaning." " And talking with you at night in question?" " Yes, sir." "I was at home with some friends, and she sent her son call me to go talk to her." "Here it is, mother." "Lena!" "What the hell you packed this time of night?" "You're hurt, Lena?" "Have you been drinking, girl?" "This is your blood, Lena?" "No, sir." "Who is this blood?" "Mr. Candice   I did a bad thing." "Very bad." "I killed Mr. Arthur." "I could see he was intoxicated and very nervous, of course." "Sure." "Continue." "And I kept saying:" ""I killed Mr. Arthur, tell me what I do."" "I knew the Elliot Arthur?" "Yes, sir." "I used to stop the spinning when it was going home from work." "He offered me a drink." "Mr. Arthur was a man who drank?" "He liked whiskey." "When passing in spinning to see Mr. Arthur, ever seen Lena Baker on site?" "No, sir." "I never saw." "No further questions." "It's all yours, Leonard." "Mr. Candice?" "Mrs. Baker told him how began to dispute the gun with Mr Arthur?" "Yes It seems to me she said" "Mr. Arthur you should wash clothing the previous week." "Thank you." "No further questions, Your Honor." "I got the call John Candice?" "Yes, I received." "I asked him to come look at the body as I was holding Mrs. Baker." "And knew that Mrs. Baker and Mr. Arthur   knew each other well?" "Yes, I had." "Ask him to tell me why said he could not live with Mr. Arthur." "And he used to lock me." "You have to trust me." "Let me handle this." "Where did you find the gun crime?" "She told us where he was." "It was very cooperative." "I was under the mattress Mrs. Annie Baker." " her mother." " No." "It was not my gun!" "It was Mr. Elliot." "He tried to kill me with it!" "I will not talk to you again to remain silent, Lena!" "Draft!" "Your witness, Mr. Ferris." "Sheriff Haney." "The first time was à Mme Baker seek weapon, found it?" "No, no found." "She told him where he was but did not find it?" "It had slipped the mattress and was stuck on the platform the bed." "It was Max who Arthur found." "Not me." "It is customary to leave the victim's son join him when looking for evidence?" "No, sir." "Is unusual." "But Mr. Arthur, the Max Arthur," "I was concerned that have found just the weapon." "It was just to make sure we did our job!" "Thank you, Sheriff Haney, by his   testimony and service this community." "Oh, thank you." "I was spinning in the night that his father was murdered?" "Yes, John Candice called me counting and I met him there." "While there, noticed some ..." " ... signs of a struggle?" " No!" "I was as usual." "A spinning in activity is always a mess." "It was you who hired Ms. Baker, after his father had broken a leg, is not it?" "Yes, I hired." "And then got better, continued to give work à Mrs. Baker?" " It is a fact." " To do what?" "Washing clothes and cleaning the house." "He had knowledge of his father have retained against Ms. Baker her will?" "Do you think he was able to do such a thing?" "I think it would not." "So you have no reason to believe" " that his father had threatened?" " Nao." "No, sir." "It's all with this witness." "Leonard?" "So ..." "The Lena Baker spent some time with his father in the wiring?" "It seems so." " Have you ever talked to him about this?" " Yeah." " And what he said?" " That was his thing." "Do not tell him that he had complaints that she was there?" "Yes, because the problem of drink." "She was always drinking." "It was there?" "During this time?" "I do not know." "It was his father who gave a drink?" "I do not know." "The two drank?" "I never knew the father had stopped drinking." "No further questions, Your Honor." "The defense calls Lena Baker to testify." "you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, God help you?" "I swear." "Lena." "Please tell the court, by his words," "What happened the night April 30 this year." "I was in the wiring   with Mr. Arthur   three days ago." "We were drinking all the time." "It was Sunday." "And I should   Distributor go to church with my mother and my children." "But Mr. Arthur did not want me to go." "You have killed me if I tried to leave." "So I locked inside, went to see his son, and came back later this evening." "I knew my mother would be mad I did not stand still from home." "I just wanted to see my children." "But he locked me in there." "It was hot that day." "Too hot to sleep." "Too hot to breathe." "30 APRIL 1944 It's you, Mr. Elliot?" "Yes" "I brought you a meal." "I need to go home." "You have to eat it." "You know that I have to go home." "I know you will be furious if I go." "But the mother is furious if I'm not." "You see my problem?" "Why not take the power and lock the door?" "For me to go home." "I'll be back tomorrow." "So I and my mother we finish everyday tasks." "I swear." "The Monday is the worst day and a mother can not do anything alone." "Who will be fed my children?" "How are we going to have money if not work?" "Is you?" "It is you who is going to give money?" "Go take care of my children?" "I told you, Lena." "You're not going anywhere." "And if you try to escape .." "... I'll kill you!" "So you have to do that." "You'll have to kill me." "Because I'm going home." "I'm going home!" "It is better to sit here, Lena." "No!" "No!" "I'm going home." "You can not force me to stay!" "I'm going home." "You're not going anywhere." "Get those hands dirty off me!" "What did you say?" "I am a white man!" "I'm in the wrong place." "It seems that never let's be who he was." "No." "No!" "So do it!" "Do it!" "If you let me walk out the door, I never came back." "You'll never see me." "Do it!" "I'm going home to see my children." "Lena!" "I love you!" "I told you" "If you leave me know what will happen." "Do you think I'm bluffing?" "Its cheap!" "You can not leave me." " It will not ..." " I'm going home." " Do not go anywhere!" " I'm going home!" "Damn, what a cheap, I'll kill you!" "I hate you, Elliot!" "Mr. Elliot?" "Mr. Elliot?" "My God!" "My Lord!" "Mercy!" "Mercy." "Lena!" "I did a horrible thing." "I'm stuck in a large problem, Mom." "I think I killed Mr. Arthur." "What are you saying?" "How could I kill him?" "We were in the wiring   and he   and I shot him." "The blood was flowing ..." " ... everywhere." " My God!" "Where did you get the gun, Lena?" "It is Mr. Arthur   he would kill me ..." "We fought ..." " Why come here?" " I do not know!" " I put in my pocket." " Lena!" "Are you sure it is dead?" " He did not move." " My God!" "Hide the gun." "Mom?" "you have to hide it for Children to find." "What do I do?" "The gun was in my hand." "I do not want to kill him." "I just wanted to come home." "No one will believe it!" "What do I do?" " You could get away." " No!" "No, no." "The Royal fled." "And look what happened to him!" "I can not escape." " I can not do that." " Well .. first" "You have to find out if the Sr. Arthur is even dead." "You did." "How are you sure?" "Have you checked?" "Listen, Lena." "Did you see if Mr. Arthur was dead?" " No." " So you have to go back." "And you have to see!" "And if he is alive, you ask for help." "And if you're dead?" "So ... you call   search Mr. Candice and talk to him." "He works in the court and tell you what you have to do." "It's you, mother?" "Are you okay, Mom?" "Go get dressed, dear." "His mother need to go to a place with it." "Hurry!" "Why come à spinning, mother?" "Wait out here." "Mr. Elliot?" "Sorry." "Sorry." "They reached the verdict unanimously?" "We, Your Honor." "Lena Baker, stand up please." "We, the jury   consider the defendant   guilty of murder." "Order!" "And the sentence ordered by the judge of this court, is that the defendant Lena Baker, be taken to prison Randolph County." "So is transported to a Tidewell State Prison in County." "In no more than twenty days no less than two days before October 13 1944 to run by electrocution." "As is required by law." "Do not kill my daughter!" "Among the two in the morning and three in the afternoon." "Lord have mercy of his soul." "We have to go, Lena." "It's time." "Come on." "'ll Be okay." ""DearGovernorArnold:" ""I am Pastor of the Church Baptist in Cuthbert, Georgia." ""Iamwritingthisletter in the name of Lena Baker." ""Itisamemberofmy church and I know since childhood." ""Shewasthetargetofa grave injustice." ""andmotherof three children," ""andwasaccused,triedand pay à death in Georgia, in the electric chair," ""thismonth,1944." "Iaskyou to examine and grant forgiveness to this case." ""OnlytheGovernorand the  Lord can help us." ""Weprayforher  reply soon." ""Respectfully." "Reverend James Solomon."" "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAE" "Look what the Lord has made ..." "The Lord made the Governor give you further three months, Lena!" " God is so good!" " Thank you, Reverend." "Do not delay you will be at home!" "God is so good." "Thank you, Lord." " God is so powerful." " Thank you, Lord!" "God is good." "Did not I tell?" "Thank you." "MERRY CHRISTMAS" ""The apology Baker was refused"" "Execution scheduled for March 5, 1945." "Mom!" "Mother!" "Come!" "I à all day waiting for you!" "What gives them to eat, Mom?" "Seem to be more grown up." " They miss me?" " Yes" "Grandma combed up as you like." "You are beautiful, Mom?" "It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!" "I have a new book from school and read all in one night!" "How did you learn to read so fast?" "Practicing." "Every night has a book in his hand." " And you, Earl?" "How are you?" " Mom?" "Mom?" "Want to hear me read?" " Just a minute, dear." " Lena?" "The Earl has spent an bad piece." "Do not give a hug in his mother, son?" "No." "You are angry with me." "Do you think I've done what people say." "Not true?" "I have a thing for you." "Remember how David toppled giant man?" "Yes" "How did he do?" "With three stones and a sling." "Unable to bring down the Goliath." "And then, cut off his head." "Do you think it was just   stones that overthrew man?" "It was what David had in those that toppled stones." "David believed in the Lord." "He believed that the Lord would help." "Just a stone, mother." "Just a stone   if you do not believe God is upon them." "Listen to me, Earl." "There are many Goliaths in this world." "But if you have something in pocket that believe, you can shoot them all." "Because they do not know, is that I have three stones in my pocket." "They are called   Earl   Sammy   and Alice Lee" "And when you bring the stones up to God," "I will say to him," ""Look what I did on Earth!"" "Look what I did." "Do you understand me, Earl?" "Yeah baby, my baby." "You'll be fine." "You have to help grandma with the little ones." "Take good care of them." "That's enough." "Come on, kids." "Come on, dear." "Come on, dear." "That's right, dear." "Come on." " See you soon, Mom." " See you tomorrow!" "See you soon!" "from early morning." "Do not come back." "Not take the children the bed to come here." "Stay at home, you hear me?" "Mom, I'm sorry." "You have not done anything." "Nothing to deserve this." "Remember it well." "And raise your head, Lena." "Raise your head." "Come here, baby!" "You will always be my girl." "You have to be strong!" "Be strong, honey." "Annie?" "Be strong!" "I love you, Mom." "And I love you!" "Now go." "I will continue to pray." "Raise your head, Lena." "Raise your head." "Go." "Be strong, Lena!" "And lift your head." "Be strong!" "Be strong." "What a beautiful morning, no sheriff is?" "That's right." "Take care of my children." "I'll keep an eye on them." "Do not worry." "We are still in Georgia?" "Georgia is a state very large." "It seems that we go through ten different countries." "First swamps, after forests" "Now the mountains ..." "I swear I do not believe we are still in Georgia." "But we are." "God made all this land   all in one place." "I do not know what I liked more." ""I have to ask ... sorry ..." "... for the interruption," ""I think it is important that ..." "What do you have?" "It?" " Just a stone." " Not just a rock." "Mr. Powell." "What are you doing here?" "Your mother does not want to be alone." "I told her it was a honor to be here with you." "These glasses are his." "The've used a lot in recent days." "Thanks for having lent me for so long." "The pleasure was all mine, Lena." "Go with God, girl." "No, no, no ..." "Lena Baker." "Some last words?" "What I did   was self-defense," "I own or have have killed me." "The way I was   could not succumb." "God   already forgiven me." "I have nothing against anyone." "Got cotton Mr. Powell." "And he was good for me." "I'm ready to go." "I am one among many." "I am prepared to be with my God." "I have a great ..." "I have a clear conscience." ""On March 5, 1945 Lena Baker became the first and only woman" ""to be performed on the chair electric in the state of Georgia." ""His trial, conviction and sentence lasted only 4 hours." ""The implementation took 6 minutes and took various shocks." ""60 years after its execution," ""Lena Baker was officially condoned by the state of Georgia.""