On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a “whites-only” railroad car in New Orleans. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by ...
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He also knew it could have historic implications. Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker who had agreed to take part in an act of civil disobedience orchestrated by a New Orleans civil rights ...
Racial and social justice advocacy groups are planning to unveil a new plaque July 30 at the Roosevelt Hotel to honor the victims of a city-sanctioned racist massacre that occurred nearly 160 years ...
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When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey to Covington, Louisiana, would be brief. Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker ...
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