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	Encyclopedia: homer plessy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Homer plessy - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Was only 1/8 fl (he had an african american great-grandmother) and he and his entire family passed as white, but the state of louisiana considered him fl.
		Trivia games folktales biographies historical documents historical events afro-books afro-voices afro-links afro-store awards feedback homer adolph plessy homer plessy was born a free man in new orleans louisiana on march 17, 1862 to adolphe and rosa debergue plessy, a creole family whose heritage stemmed from a racially mixed background of african and caucasian ancestors.
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	www.insurancequotes-site.info /homer-adolph-plessy.html (549 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		Plessy was remanded for trial in Orleans Parish, despite his objections that the Louisiana law was in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
		In this sense, while Plessy is a highly significant and deservedly infamous U.S. Supreme Court case that enforced segregation and thus deprived African-Americans of their rights as citizens, it was not the primary reason for segregation, that having already been established as the law by the Civil Rights Cases and other contemporary events.
		Plessy dealt with accommodations in railway cars, not schools, and the Warren court ruled that in education separate schools are inherently unequal.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pl/Plessy_v._Ferguson.html (1081 words)

	Medley (2003) WE AS FREEMEN - Plessy v. Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers.
		Plessy's act of civil disobedience was designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, one of the many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by fls after the Civil War.
		Homer Plessy's arrest in a New Orleans railway car was not mere happenstance, but the result of a carefully choreographed campaign of civil disobedience planned by the Comite des Citoyens.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103396155 (310 words)

	Homer Plessy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homer Adolph Plessy (March 17, 1863 – March 1, 1925) was the American plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v.
		Plessy was born Homère Patris Plessy in New Orleans, Louisiana, on St.
		Plessy seems to have led a rather ordinary life; however,by 1887, he became vice-president of the Justice, Protective, Educational, and Social Club – a group dedicated to reforming public education in New Orleans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homer_Plessy (825 words)

	supremecourtanalysis
		In this case a man named Homer Plessy was riding in a train that went through the state of Louisiana in which it was illegal for the whites and the fls to be in the same part of the train.
		Plessy whom was 1/8 fl and 7/8 white violated this law and argued first argued in the state court that this was a violation of the 14th amendment but the Judge John Howard Ferguson found him guilty saying that he should have been separate and in that separation he was still equal.
		Homer Plessy as Defendant and John Howard Ferguson as the Louisianna Lawyer and Judge.
	www.geocities.com /paulomdavis/supremecourtanalysis.html (1688 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The railroad company had been informed already as to Plessy's racial lineage, and after Plessy had taken a seat in the whites only railway car, he was asked to vacate it and sit instead in the "fls only" car.
		Plessy was remanded for trial in Orleans Parish, despite his objections that the Louisiana law was in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
		Plessy legitimized the move towards segregation practices in the South begun earlier.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/l/e/Plessy_v._Ferguson_f5e2.html (936 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Homer Plessy was a man who was considered to be fl, yet was seven-eighths white.
		When Plessy learned that the statute did not apply to interstate commerce, he was careful only to travel in the state of Louisiana.
		Plessy argued that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the court.
	library.advanced.org /10718/plessy.htm (162 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		In court, Plessy argued that the law violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.
		Plessy was found guilty, because the Louisiana law did not violate the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
		The Plessy decision by the Supreme Court of the United States made people believe that it was right, according to the Constitution, to require Blacks and Whites to have separate restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools, as long as the separate facilities were equal.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/plessy_v__ferguson.htm (929 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson: 1892
		Homer Plessy, a 30-year old shoemaker, was jailed for sitting in the "White's" car of the East Louisiana Railroad.
		Plessy was a mix of seven-eighths white and one-eighths fl.
		Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/USA/PlessyFerguson.html (408 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plessy was of mixed Caucasian and African descent, having had one fl great-grandparent.
		Plessy took a seat in a car reserved exclusively for white passengers but was told by the conductor that he would have to move to the car for African Americans.
		Plessy's arrest and imprisonment were based on an 1890 act of the Louisiana legislature.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~df349/hses/government/supreme_court/plessy.htm (887 words)

	Can You Believe It!?! Separate But Equal, Plessy V. Ferguson
		PLESSY V. In one of the most shameful decisions ever issued by the United States Supreme Court, Homer Plessy lost his bid to be treated equally with whites in America.
		The fact that Homer was 7/8 white and 1/8 fl didn't seem to matter to the majority of the high court.
		Homer's suit was to prevent Judge Ferguson (the trial judge in New Orleans where Plessy was found guilty in the first place) from carrying out Homer's sentence - a $25 fine or 20 days in jail.
	www.lawbuzz.com /can_you/plessy/plessy.htm (419 words)

	Path to Brown v. Board \| LJWorld.com
		Homer Plessy, a New Orleans "octoroon" (someone with one fl grandparent) deliberately violated this law by purchasing a first-class train ticket, sitting in the whites only car, and informing the conductor that he was, in fact, fl.
		Homer Plessy deliberately set out to be arrested for sitting in the wrong car.
		Homer Plessy and all those involved in the case, including the white New York lawyer for Plessy, Albion Tourgee, were early advocates for civil rights at a time when such advocacy was extremely dangerous.
	www.ljworld.com /section/hoeflich/story/163046 (1020 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Homer Plessy was born a free man in New Orleans Louisiana on March 17, 1862 to Adolphe and Rosa Debergue Plessy, a Creole family whose heritage stemmed from a racially mixed background of African and Caucasian ancestors.
		Although Homer and his entire family were light-skinned and "passed" as white, his great grandmother was of African descent, thus Homer identified himself as being 7/8 white and 1/8 fl.
		Homer was apprenticed as a shoemaker, the profession of his stepfather and maternal relatives.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/hplessy.htm (590 words)

	Plessy Park - The New Orleans Civil Rights Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plessy had no desire to travel aboard the train that was leaving from a depot at Press and Royal streets and headed across Lake Pontchartrain for Covington.
		Whether you recognize it at this moment or not, Plessy Park is going to challenge and potentially reshape our nation's image of New Orleans’; role in the civil rights movement, as well as our image of young people and their role in solving the problems of inequality and injustice we face today.
		While Plessy Park will be the latest in a series of civil rights monuments being built throughout the south, it will be the only one designed, fabricated and operated with the central involvement of young people.
	www.plessypark.com /developments (922 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		The arrest of Homer Plessy (1862-1925) on June 7, 1892, was part of a planned challenge to the 1890 Louisiana Separate Car Act by the Citizens' Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law, a small group of fl professionals in New Orleans.
		Homer Plessy, a native of south Louisiana who could "pass" as white, agreed to be the test case.
		When Plessy appeared before the Louisiana district court, the court ruled that a state had the constitutional power to regulate railroad companies operating solely within its borders and concluded that the Louisiana Separate Car Act was constitutional.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/plessy/plessy.html (521 words)

	Plessy v Ferguson
		Plessy argued such laws were opposite to the new amendments.
		The court ruled against Plessy saying that as long as the accomadations were equal there was nothing wrong with separation of the races.
		The Plessy decision was confronted with the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education.
	score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/evolution_of_civilrights/plessy.html (204 words)

	Plessy Park - The New Orleans Civil Rights Memorial - New Orleans, Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1892 Plessy a free man of color, was arrested for refusing to move to a segregated passenger car on an East Louisiana Railroad Train.
		His arrest and the lawsuit that followed, "Plessy vs. Ferguson," was orchestrated by Plessy and the Citizens' Committee to challenge the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act of 1890—a Jim Crow Law that would later establish segregation as the law of the land.
		June 7, 1892 was the date that Homer Plessy boarded the train at Chartres and Cotton Press Streets in New Orleans.
	www.plessypark.com /developments/june_7_2005.html (517 words)

	Plessy vs. Ferguson
		On June 7th, 1892 Homer Plessy, a man of seven-eighth Caucasian and one-eighth African blood, paid and engaged for a first class passage on East Louisiana Railway from the New Orleans to Covington.
		Plessy declined and refused to admit that he was an any proportion a colored man.
		Plessy being a passenger between two stations within the state of Louisiana, was assigned by officers of the company to the coach used for the race which he belonged, but he insisted on going into by the race he belonged to.
	www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us /brown_v_board/plessy_v_ferguson.htm (450 words)

	African American Registry: Homer Plessy, activist on the Bayou!
		Homer Plessy*, a Black businessman and civil rights activist, was born on this date in 1863.
		Plessy was apprenticed as a shoemaker, the profession of his stepfather and maternal relatives.
		Plessy died on March 1, 1925 and is buried in his mother’s family tomb in St. Louis Cemetery.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1443/Homer_Plessy_activist_on_the_Bayou (300 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Homer Plessy was a man who was considered to be fl, yet was seven-eighths white.
		When Plessy learned that the statute did not apply to interstate commerce, he was careful only to travel in the state of Louisiana.
		Plessy argued that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the court.
	www.tangischools.org /schools/phs/think/court/plessy.htm (162 words)

	Homer Plessy Biography (Activist) — Infoplease.com
		Homer Plessey was the man in the middle of the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that confirmed the rule of "separate but equal" in U.S. law.
		Plessy had purposely violated an 1890 state law, called the Separate Car law, which required that passengers on Louisiana trains be segregated by race.
		Plessy claimed in court that the Separate Car law violated the 13th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but Louisiana Judge John Howard Ferguson found him guilty anyhow.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/homerplessy.html (341 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson
		In 1892, passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a "Jim Crow" (fls only) car and was promptly arrested.
		The court also held that passenger Plessy was not stripped of equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment, if the facilities were separate but equal; according to the 1896 court, separate was not unequal.
		Plessy went to court and argued, in Homer Adolph Plessy v.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1597.html (424 words)

	Plessy v. Ferguson at AllExperts
		They persuaded Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth fl (an octoroon in the vocabulary of the day), to test it.
		Once he had boarded the train, Plessy informed the train conductor of his actual racial lineage, and after Plessy had taken a seat in the whites section he was asked to vacate it and sit instead in the "fls only" section.
		Plessy built his case on an abridgment of the "privileges and immunities" of United States citizens, or denying those citizens due process or the equal protection of the law.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pl/plessy_v._ferguson.htm (899 words)

	WE AS FREEMEN: PLESSY V. FERGUSON
		Plessy was not the first challenge, but rather the second in a carefully orchestrated sequence of attacks, on the law.
		Plessy, the son of politically active and free people of color, was born in New Orleans in 1863.
		Important to the Plessy’s story is that his skin was light enough “to pass” for white, thus allowing him to purchase the railroad ticket and board the train without immediately raising the ire of white passengers.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Medley1003.htm (876 words)

	Background Summary and Questions ***, Plessy v. Ferguson, Landmark Supreme Court Cases
		The Plessy case was carefully orchestrated by both the Citizens' Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, a group of fls who raised $3000 to challenge the Act, and the East Louisiana Railroad Company, which sought to terminate the Act largely for monetary reasons.
		They chose a 30-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy, a citizen of the United States who was one-eighth fl and a resident of the state of Louisiana.
		Plessy appealed the case to the Louisiana State Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision that the Louisiana law as constitutional.
	www.landmarkcases.org /plessy/background3.html (589 words)

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