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Later documents give his name as Homer Adolph Plessy or Homère Adolphe Plessy. [6] [8] His father, a carpenter named Joseph Adolphe Plessy, and his mother, a seamstress named Rosa Debergue, were both mixed-race free people of color. Homer's paternal grandfather, Germain Plessy was a white Frenchman born in Bordeaux circa 1777.
In 1892 by the Citizens' Committee recruited Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 African American, [7] to violate the Separate Car Act. Additionally, the committee hired private Detective Chris C. Cain to arrest Plessy and ensure that he be charged for violating the Separate Car Act, as opposed to a misdemeanor such as disturbing the peace.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case on racial segregation 1896 United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court of the United States Argued April 13, 1896 Decided May 18, 1896 Full case name Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson Citations 163 U.S. 537 (more) 16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L ...
Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad The post Homer Plessy, Black man behind ‘separate ...
Louisiana’s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a Jim Crow law ...
He was at the center of an infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
One month after his arrest, Plessy appeared in court before Judge John Howard Ferguson. Plessy's lawyer, Albion Tourgee, claimed Plessy's 13th and 14th amendment rights were violated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, and the 14th amendment gave equal protection to all under the law. [17] The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v.
John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest sparked the SCOTUS ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into law.