Joan Little trial materials collection, 1975-1976.

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Joan Little trial materials collection, 1975-1976.

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Transcripts of testimony, briefs, clippings, taped interviews conducted by James Reston, and other materials relating to the trial of Joan Little, a black prisoner who was accused and acquitted of murder in the death of a white male jailer in Washington, N.C., in 1975. Reston used these materials to write "The Innocence of Joan Little" (1977). Interviewees include Golden Frinks, civil rights activist; Joan Little; Jerry Paul, defense attorney; Richard Wolf, an astrologer who helped the defense in jury selection; and three North Carolina women prisoners.

About 90 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7143937

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Little, Joanna

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Wolf, Richard M.

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Reston, James, Jr., 1941-

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On 27 August 1974, the half naked body of Clarence Alligood was found in the Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina. The white jailer had been stabbed to death with an ice-pick, and his twenty-one year old black female prisoner, Joan Little, was gone. Little surrendered to North Carolina authorities over a week later insisting that she had acted in self-defense against a sexual assault. She was charged with first degree murder, which carried an automatic death sentence i...

Paul, Jerry

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Frinks, Golden Asro, 1920-2004

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