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Plessy may have been born in 1858, [1] 1862, [7] or on March 17, 1863, under the name Homère Patris Plessy. [5] [a] He was the second of two children in a French-speaking Creole family in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later documents give his name as Homer Adolph Plessy or Homère Adolphe Plessy.
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.
In 1892, as the film documents, Tremé resident Homer Plessy became the second most famous plaintiff in United States Supreme Court history in a case (Plessy v. Ferguson) that ultimately decided against Plessy in 1896 and established the "Separate but equal" doctrine that reinforced Jim Crow laws that prevailed legally until 1954's Brown v.
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 ...
He was born December 28, 1849, in St. Martinville, Louisiana, to Hipolite Martinet and Marie Louise Benoit. [1] [3]He was a prominent member of the Comité des Citoyens, a civil society group whose most famous action was staging the arrest and subsequent defense of Homer Plessy in an effort to oppose racial segregation resulting in the Supreme Court decision Plessy vs Ferguson.
He was at the center of an infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but ...