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DISRUPTING THE SCRIPT:
Raising to Legal Consciousness Sexual Assaults on Black Women
Vanessa Adams-Harris:
"Who Will Sing for Lena?"
Vanessa Adams-Harris' one woman show about Lena Baker a black domestic worker in the Jim Crow south who killed a white man in Cuthbert, Georgia in 1944 and was sentenced by an all-white male jury to die by electrocution in 1945.
This video was recorded on March 19, 2012 as part of the conference, "Disrupting the Script: Raising to Legal Consciousness Assaults on Black Women." It was sponsored by the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University.