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    Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff...
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  • board votes to pardon Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson". Washington Post. Tina Burnside (January 5, 2022). "Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate...
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  • over the case Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana. The case was brought by Homer Plessy and eventually led to the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson...
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  • War to Plessy v. Ferguson. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-518139-5. Fireside, Harvey (2004). Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the...
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    east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the west. Bywater is part of the Ninth...
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    Street and St. Claude Avenue to the north, the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the east, the Mississippi River to the...
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  • (1826–1894), American politician Homer Augustus Nelson (1829–1891), American politician and Civil War colonel Homer Plessy (1862–1925), African-American...
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  • The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama,...
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  • County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899).[citation needed] In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry and appeared to be white, boarded an all-white...
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  • group persuaded Homer Plessy to test it; he was a man of color who was of fair complexion and one-eighth "Negro" in ancestry. In 1892, Plessy bought a first-class...
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