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 ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy ... After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through ...

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 ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 ... The nation's highest court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that the state’s racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S.

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

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ‘separate-but-equal’ principle. This led to more segregation on transportation, in entertainment venues, in factories and at other places ...