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May 3, 2022 · Ja'Meya Jackson was one of the five students featured in the documentary 'Bully' about school bullying. Learn how she coped with the trauma, changed her life, and is doing today.
Ja'Meya Jackson is a 14-year-old who lives with her mother in Yazoo County, Mississippi. An honor student and talented basketball player with plans to join the Navy in order to help her mother, she was repeatedly harassed by her peers.
- Lee Hirsch
- Lee Hirsch
- Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen
- Lindsay Utz, Jenny Golden
Jan 6, 2022 · Ja'Meya Jackson is one of the main subjects of the 2011 documentary Bully, which exposes the harsh reality of bullying in schools. She was targeted by her peers and ignored by the system, and eventually faced felony charges for carrying a gun to scare her bullies.
Mar 29, 2012 · A sheriff in Yazoo County, Miss., tallies, with dry, bureaucratic relish, the 45 felony counts faced by Ja’Meya Jackson, a 14-year-old girl who pulled out a gun on a crowded school bus....
- Lee Hirsch
Oct 9, 2014 · Ja'Meya Jackson, a 14-year-old honors student, carried a gun to school to stop the bullying she faced on the bus. She is featured in the PBS film Bully, which follows five stories of young people affected by bullying.
May 11, 2012 · A blog post by a psychologist who shares her experience of being bullied and how it affected her. She mentions Ja'Meya Jackson, a girl who brandished a gun on a school bus, as one of the cases featured in the documentary Bully.
Ja'Meya Jackson, a 14-year-old honors student from Mississippi, was bullied on the school bus and carried a gun to scare off her tormentors. She is one of the five kids featured in Bully, a film by Lee Hirsch that premiered on PBS in 2014.
