Jesse w garner biography

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African-American victim of assault

Jessie Lee Garner was an African American woman who, in the depths of Jim Crow, successfully sued the municipal bus company of Jackson, Mississippi over being attacked by a white man seeking her seat in the colored section of the bus. An all-white jury awarded her damages of $1,000 (about $22,000 in 2024 dollars) — a rare legal victory for a Black citizen of the American South in the white supremacist courts of the period.^[1][2]

Bus attack

On August 31, 1936, Garner was six months pregnant and waiting for a bus outside Sutton's Ice Cream Parlor in Jackson. When it arrived, Garner took a seat in the section of the bus reserved for African Americans. As the bus followed its route, the white section of the bus became crowded, with all seats taken.^[2][1]

Outside the Edwards Hotel in downtown Jackson, a young white man walked back to the African American section of the bus and, "with rude and profane language," ordered Garner to stand up and give him her seat in the colored s