Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff...
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1892 when Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, deliberately boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans. By boarding the whites-only car, Plessy violated...
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over the case Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana. The case was brought by Homer Plessy and eventually led to the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson...
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east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the west. Bywater is part of the Ninth...
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Comité des Citoyens (section Plessy v. Ferguson)
War to Plessy v. Ferguson. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-518139-5. Fireside, Harvey (2004). Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the...
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Street and St. Claude Avenue to the north, the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the east, the Mississippi River to the...
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Homer Plessy (1862–1925), African-American anti-segregationist activist, plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson Homer Rice...
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The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama,...
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Separate but equal (section Plessy v. Ferguson)
County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899).[citation needed] In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry and appeared to be white, boarded an all-white...
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Nicholas. On January 5, 2022, Edwards pardoned Homer Plessy, subject of the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld segregation laws...
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