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Erma Lee Horne

Released
Date of birth:1944
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
Erma Lee Horne

Biography

Erma Lee Horne was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at the Trailways bus station — 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.

She was arrested in the same Trailways group as her relative Andrew Horne Jr.

Case

Charges: Sit-in at the Trailways bus station, Jackson — arrested July 9, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 9, 1961
Sentenced: Jul 10, 1961
Prosecutor: J. A. Travis (Hinds County Court trial, October 24, 1961)
Judge: Russel D. Moore III (Hinds County Court trial, October 24, 1961)
Plead: Not guilty (October 24, 1961 county-court trial transcript).