The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history. Plessy was ...

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. 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 ...