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Joan Little

(1953-)
African-American woman acquitted in murder trial of a white prison guard
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Joan Little (pronounced "Jo Ann") (born 1953) is an African-American woman whose trial for the 1974 murder of Clarence Alligood, a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina, whom attempted to rape Little before she could escape. Her case became a cause célèbre of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-death penalty movements. Little 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 also has become classic in legal circles as a pioneering instance of the application of scientific jury selection.

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Born Joan Little
1953 (age 72)
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