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 ...

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 ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy ... civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the car reserved for whites ...

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