Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892, in a planned act of civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling, has been recommended for ...

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an act of civil disobedience. On June 7, 1892, Plessy boarded the "white" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Born on March 17, 1863 ...

The other two campuses went on brief lockdowns. Homer Plessy Community School in Treme was on lockdown Thursday after receiving what the school described as a "copycat threat situation" in an ...

Ruby Bridges was among six girls who passed a test to transfer to all white schools in New Orleans. Across town on that very same day, Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Etienne were the three ...

When Homer Plessy boarded a ‘Whites Only’ train carriage in New Orleans in 1892, he knew he would be arrested – in fact, that was his plan. He was mixed race, and a member of a civil rights ...