Tag: homer plessy

• Know Your History: 1896 Plessy v. Furgeson

  In 1892, Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting on a white rail car. Homer was extremely light skinned and could have passed for a white person, but under the law of Louisiana, he wasn’t ‘white enough’. The case, which eventually made it to the Supreme Court in 1896, centered around Louisiana’s segregation laws and whether…

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  April 14, 2014

  History & Culture, USA

  brown v. the board of education, civil rights movement, homer plessy, jim crow laws, Louisiana, plessy v. furgeson, segregation