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 ... and the case eventually moved to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Plessy's side arguing that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892 ... after years of trials appeals, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

Plessy Vs. Ferguson was held in 1896, and was about an African American Homer Plessy who boarded a train in New Orleans. The ...

When the Supreme Court delivered its historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling 70 years ago on May 17, the goal was to ...

When Homer Plessy boarded a ‘Whites Only ... The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Plessy’s lawyers had a strong argument – that all citizens were equal under ...