Episode 21 |  Dr. Christina Greene on The Incredible Story of Joan Little

In 1974, the nation was gripped with the story of Joan Little, a young Black woman who, in self-defense, killed the prison guard at a Beaufort County Jail,

In Washington, North Carolina when he sexually assaulted her while she was in custody. It raised questions of how safe a Black woman could be with police in small, rural jails and beyond. Dr. Christina Greene, Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal about her new book, Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment, published by UNC Press.