When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey to Covington, Louisiana, would be brief. He also knew it could have historic ...
NEW ORLEANS – Homer Plessy's name was cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that institutionalized ...
Homer Plessy has finally been pardoned posthumously, pending the Lousiana governor's approval, more than 100 years after he was arrested for not moving from a section of a train that was prohibited to ...
Nearly 130 years after he was ejected from a "whites only" train car in New Orleans and arrested, a Creole man may finally get his criminal record cleared for breaking Louisiana's "separate but equal" ...
In 1892, a young shoemaker from Treme boarded a train hoping to challenge White supremacy, but wound up lending his name to the infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision that made “separate but equal” the ...
NEW ORLEANS - Homer Plessy's name was officially cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that ...
Homer Plessy, Namesake of ‘Separate But Equal' Supreme Court Ruling, Pardoned 129 Years After Arrest
A Louisiana board on Friday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, whose civil disobedience led all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and to its infamous 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A crowd gathered on NOCCA’s campus Wednesday morning to commemorate one of the stains of Louisiana’s civil rights past. “130 years ago, Homer Plessy bought a ticket, boarded a ...
A state board in Louisiana voted Friday to give a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, a Creole man whose refusal to leave a whites-only train car in the 1890s led to a notorious Supreme Court decision ...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who died with a ...
He also knew it could have historic implications. Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker who had agreed to take part in an act of civil disobedience orchestrated by a New Orleans civil rights ...
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