- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Joan Little Protest, circa 1975
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1975
- Subject:
- Public speaking--Georgia--Atlanta
Prison reform
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Feminists--Georgia--Atlanta
Parks--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
African Americans--1970-1980
Musical instruments--Georgia--Atlanta
Banners--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs (Notices)--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Central City Park, 33.622302, -84.379657
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Woodruff Park, 33.75566, -84.38854 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of unidentified protesters participating in the Atlanta Coalition to Aid Joan Little rally in Central City Park (now Woodruff Park) in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
Joan Little (1953- ) is an African American woman who was accused of killing a white prison guard in a Beaufort County jail in Washington, North Carolina in 1974. The first degree murder charge carried an automatic death sentence if she were convicted. Little contended that she was resisting sexual assault and her trial attracted the national attention of civil rights activists, feminist groups, prisoners' rights advocates and anti-death penalty activists. Little was ultimately acquitted of the crime. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.457.002
ahc101457002.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1632
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1632/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
