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Homer Plessy
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Quick Fact
FULL NAME: Homer Adolph Plessy
BORN: March 17,
DIED: March 1,
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.
He challenged Louisiana segregation legislation by refusing to move from a "whites only" railcar in His case was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court and arguments from it were used decades later in the landmark Brown v.
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Early Days
Homer Adolph Plessy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 17, , 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 , Plessy served as vice president of