Lee. (Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW ORLEANS (CN) — It's been more than 120 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established the “separate but equal” doctrine that began segregation ...

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an ... he identified himself as black (his light complexion made his race "not discernible", he said), he was arrested, just as the Citizens ...

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 ...

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 ...