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Jesse Harris, 1940-2015

In Community Organizing, Obituaries, Oral History, Parchman on 31 January 2015 with Comments Off on Jesse Harris, 1940-2015

Jesse Harris was one of the many Riders from Jackson, Mississippi, a newcomer to the movement who got his first education in nonviolence while locked up in Parchman with the likes of James Farmer, John Lewis and Bernard Lafayette. Civil Rights would become his life for the next ten years. After the Rides, Jesse worked […]