Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Black Woman Raped by Prison Guard Defends Self . . . Fund Raising for Joann Little. Illustrated handbill, 11 x 8½ inches, printed in rainbow tones; minimal wear and toning; signed in ink by poet Allen Ginsberg. New York: Survival by Sharing Press, 4 April [1975]
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In August 1974, Joan Little was serving a sentence at Beaufort County Jail in North Carolina. A notoriously predatory prison guard attempted to rape her, and she stabbed him to death with an ice pick. Facing the death penalty, her case became a national cause at the intersection of the feminist, racial justice, and prison reform movements.

This flier advertises an event held to support Little's defense fund, "sponsored by a group of concerned Black women." They planned speakers on "Conditions & women in prison" and three films, held at Riverview Towers in West Harlem. Dinners were offered for $2, "contribute more if you can, less if you can't."