Raleigh, N.C., July 28---Joan Little at News Luncheon---Murder trial defendant Joan Little sits with Georgia State Senator Julian Bond at a news luncheon in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she said the prosecution will "be out like wolves to get me." Ms. Little is charged in the death of a white jailer.

Joan Little (pronounced "Jo Ann") (born 1953) is a black woman charged for the 1974 murder of Clarence Alligood, a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina. Little's trial made her a cause célèbre of the Civil Rights, Feminist, and Anti-death Penalty Movements. She was the first woman in United States history to be acquitted using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault. Her case has become classic in legal circles as a pioneering instance of the application of scientific jury selection.

Julian Bond (1940-2015) became a Civil Rights activist while in college. In 1965, he was elected to Georgia's state legislature, but his opposition to the war in Vietnam meant that it would take a U.S. Supreme Court ruling for him to be allowed to take his seat. Bond later served as the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center and of the NAACP.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Civil Rights Movements
• Female Portraits
• Injustice
• Joan Little
• Julian Bond
• Lunches
• Male Portraits
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Raleigh
• Trials

• Image Dimensions: 9 9/16 x 7 1/16 in. (24.29 x 17.94 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 7 1/4 in. (25.56 x 18.42 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin