NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor (GROVE-nor) recounts the story of Corrine Sykes, a black woman who was executed in 1946 in Pennsylvania's electric chair. Sykes, who worked as a maid, was convicted of murdering the white woman she worked for. The case had a profound impact on the North Philadelphia neighborhood where Grosvenor grew up, amid the facts... and fiction...surrounding the Corrine Sykes case.

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