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Homer Plessy
1862–1925
Quick Fact
FULL NAME: Homer Adolph Plessy
BORN: March 17, 1862
DIED: March 1, 1925
BIRTHPLACE: New Orleans, Louisiana
Who Was Homer Plessy?
Homer Plessy was a shoemaker whose one act of civil disobedience helped inspire future generations of the Civil Rights Movement.
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He challenged Louisiana segregation legislation by refusing to move from a "whites only" railcar in 1896. His case was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court and arguments from it were used decades later in the landmark Brown v.
Board of Education decision of 1954.
Early Days
Homer Adolph Plessy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 17, 1862, to a family of mixed racial heritage. His family could pass for white and were considered "free people of color." Plessy thought of himself as 1/8 Black since his great-grandmother was from Africa.
As a young man, Plessy worked as a shoemaker, and at age 25, he married Lousie Bordnave. Taking up social activism, in 1887,