Homer Plessy
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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. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one
A placard marks the place in New Orleans where Chris C. Cain arrested Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892.
Plessy’s tomb in New Orleans
A bronze plaque on the side of Plessy's tomb in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, describes his historical significance.
Separate but equal
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutio
Homer Plessy
…bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy. The resulting "separate but equal" legal doctrine determined that state-mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as the…
"We cater to white trade only". A restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
A "colored" drinking fountain in Oklahoma City, 1939
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon
Apartheid signs trainstation