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.

The New Orleans Police Department has arrested three students connected ... The other two campuses went on brief lockdowns. Homer Plessy Community School in Treme was on lockdown Thursday after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...