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Plessy’s tomb in New Orleans. 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 in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson.
Homer Plessy, American shoemaker who was best known as the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which sanctioned the controversial ‘separate but equal’ doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
Overlooked No More: Homer Plessy, Who Sat on a Train and Stood Up for Civil Rights He boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans with the hope of getting the attention of the Supreme Court....
CNN — Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of...
Jan. 5, 2022. Descendants of Homer Plessy like to say that he was a civil rights activist before most people in Louisiana were familiar with such a term. In 1892, Plessy, a racially mixed ...
Homer Plessy (1862–1925) is best known as the plaintiff in the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which he challenged Louisiana's Separate Car Act.
On June 7, 1892, a racially mixed shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy bought a first-class ticket for a train bound for Covington, La., and took a seat in the whites-only car. He was...
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Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferg... Wikipedia
- 1862, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- March 1, 1925, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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