Jeanetta Reese

Jeanetta Reese was one of the plaintiffs in the bus segregation lawsuit Browder v. Gayle (1956).[1] However, she dropped out of the case after a day because of intimidation by members of the white community; she and her husband had been threatened.[2][3] She falsely claimed she had not agreed to the lawsuit, which led to an unsuccessful attempt to disbar the lawyer involved (Fred Gray) for supposedly improperly representing her.[2]

She was a senior citizen at the time, and worked as a domestic for a high-ranking police official.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis V. Baldwin; Paul R. Dekar (30 August 2013). "In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality": Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-61097-434-9.
  2. 1 2 Jeanne Theoharis (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: Beyond the Fables of the Civil Rights Movement. Beacon Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-8070-7587-6.
  3. ↑ Dr. Gwen Patton. "Montgomery Bus Boycott — Biographic Sketches". Trenholm State Technical College Archives. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  4. ↑ Robert J. Walker (2007). Let My People Go!: The Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Hamilton Books. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-0-7618-3706-0.
  5. ↑ Preston King,; Walter Earl Fluker, (13 September 2013). Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South: Resistance and Non-Violence. Taylor & Francis. pp. 288–. ISBN 978-1-136-82674-0.
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