Joan Little
As highlighted by the APs investigative report and Daniel Holtzclaw's serial rape trial, there is a rarely-tapped history of sexual assault by the police against Black women.
The case of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Anne”) Little helped bring awareness to sexual buse of women in prison. On this day in 1975, Ms. Little became the first woman acquitted of murder using a self-defense plea after she killed an abusive white prison guard. Little was born in 1953 in Washington, N.C, a small coastal town. […]
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