June 7, 1892: Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the 'whites-only' car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Homer Plessy was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Arrested, tried and convicted in New Orleans of a […]
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