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Harold Valentine

Murder defendant Joan Little carries a bouquet of flowers from the Rape Crisis Center while leaving the courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina
August 1975
Vintage wire photograph on paper
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (24.13 x 17.15 cm)

Creation Place: Unknown

Technique: Photography

Credit Line: Restricted gift of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg in honor of Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Accession Number: P2021.13.761

Commentary: Joan Little With Bouquet Of Flowers: murder trial defendant Joan Little carries a bouquet of flowers while leaving the courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was on the witness stand most of the day. The flowers were from the Rape Crisis Center.

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.

Marks: On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp.

Materials: Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

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Civil Rights Movements, Clarence Alligood, Courthouses, Flowers, Injustice, Joan Little, Murder, Racial Discrimination, Raleigh, Rape, Rape Crisis Center, Self defense, Trials

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Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (24.13 x 17.15 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen

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This object is a member of the following portfolios:

1975-1999

Civil Rights Movements

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