Biography
Jessie L. Harris was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at Livingston Park — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.
The catalog gives Jesse Harris as the heading for this record and titles the photograph Jessie L. Harris. It separately holds a June 2, 1961 arrest filed under Jesse James Harris, now a record of its own here, and states that the two are different people — though one pass rated that only moderate and flagged a possible identity overlap. If they are one man, these are two of his arrests.
