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Notable New Orleanians buried in St. Louis No. 1 include Etienne de Boré, a wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights.
Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 [a] – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in ...
Homer Plessy Décédé le 1 Mars, 1925. Tomb in St. Louis Cemetery 1, New Orleans, LA. Rest in peace. Date: 28 June 2011, 10:45:24: Source: Flickr: Homer Plessy Décédé le 1 Mars, 1925 (New Orleans, LA) Author: takomabibelot: Permission (Reusing this file)
On Jan. 11, 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty in a New Orleans district court for sitting in a whites-only train car, eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car ...
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In 2009, descendants of Ferguson and Plessy formed the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation of New Orleans to honor the successes of the civil rights movement.On February 12, 2009, they partnered with the Crescent City Peace Alliance and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in placing a historical marker at the corner of Press Street and Royal Street, the site of Homer Plessy's arrest in New ...
He was at the center of an infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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