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SUMMARY:Freeing Joan Little: Gender\, Incarceration\, and Struggles for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Location: Smith Warehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 
 4\; 114 S Buchanan Blvd\, Durham\, NC\n\nIn 1974\, a twenty-year-old Black 
 woman named Joan Little found herself facing the death penalty for killing 
 a white guard who had tried to rape her in an eastern North Carolina 
 prison. The folks who campaigned on Little’s behalf understood the webs 
 of sexual violence\, state violence\, and racialized carcerality that 
 ensnared her\, and they linked her trial to other sites of existential 
 concern for Black women’s—and everyone’s—liberation. Her August 
 1975 acquittal spoke to the power of their critique and the reach of their 
 organizing. 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark case that 
 still offers lessons in the struggle for justice. Join historian Christina 
 Greene\, Ph.D. ’96\, and death penalty lawyer Shelagh Kenney to discuss 
 what Joan Little tells us about gender\, incarceration\, and state violence 
 then and now.\n\nChristina Greene is professor of Afro-American studies at 
 the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Free Joan Little: The 
 Politics of Race\, Sexual Violence\, and Imprisonment\; Shelagh Kenney\, is 
 Interim Director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation. Adriane 
 Lentz-Smith\, Associate Professor of History and African & African American 
 Studies at Duke University\, will introduce and moderate the 
 discussion.\n\nIn addition to the panel\, an exhibition of items related to 
 Joan Little\, including one of her handwritten\, illustrated poems\, will 
 be on display in Perkins Library during the month of January 2026. 
 \n\nCo-sponsored by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and 
 Culture\; History\; Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies\; African and 
 African American Studies\; Franklin Humanities Institute.
LOCATION:Other (see event description)
ORGANIZER;CN="David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library":MAILTO:askrl@duke.edu
CATEGORIES:Diversity and Inclusion, Public Event, Rubenstein
CONTACT;CN="David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library":MAILTO:askrl@duke.edu
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URL:https://duke.libcal.com/calendar/events/freejoan
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