At the rally held in the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Little described her harrowing existence after she fled from the jail in Washington, North Carolina. She told of the visit by police with high-powered rifles to the home where she was hiding. "If the police had found me," she asked, "do you think I'd be alive today?"

She told of the $500 bounty offered to her protector if he would reveal her whereabouts. If she had turned herself in to the police in Beaufort, County, she added, "you would have read, 'Joanne Little hangs herself in cell.'"

After eight days in hiding, Little turned herself in to the FBI with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

When asked about the justice system in America, Little responded, "Justice is not the right word to use."  
 
 
July 3, 1950
Five years ago the United Nations came into being in San Francisco. It was hailed in Moscow and in Washington--and by the Stalinists the world over--as the "great instrument of peace," the "harbinger of world government."

Today, the same United Nations is nothing but the catapaw of U.S. imperialism, lending its prestige and a judicial cover to Truman's war in Korea. With hardly a moment's hesitation, the Security Council, save the vote of Yugoslavia, which demanded an independent investigation, accepted the U.S. resolution condemning North Korea as the aggressor. Its next move revealed even more clearly that the UN has no independent character of its own.

First Truman ordered that the air force and the navy proceed to Korea on a military mission. Then the American delegate applied to the UN for the adoption of collective sanctions. The method left no doubt as to who was issuing orders in the UN. The action of the Security Council over the opposition of Yugoslavia, in promptly endorsing the State Department's proposal confirmed the subservient status of the UN to the hilt.  
 
 
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