They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an ... complexion made his race "not discernible", he said), he was arrested, just as the Citizens Committee had planned.

Plessy Vs. Ferguson was held in 1896 ... They told me later that one of the city policemen was arrested because he had pulled ...

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 ...

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 ...