Plessy, Homer Adolph
Biography:
"Homer Adolph Plessy, an African American, had boarded a train in New Orleans and seated himself in a "whites-only" car. When he refused to move, he was arrested for violating the "Jim Crow Car Act of 1890." The incident led to the Supreme Court case in which all but Justice Harlan voted against Plessy, affirming the right of states to enact segregation laws. The "separate but equal" ruling set the stage for the rampant racial discrimination that followed in the Deep South."--We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement WWW site, retrieved Apr. 3, 2008.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
Educator Resources
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection (WGBH Educational Foundation)
- Constance Baker Motley (Instructional materials)
- Desegregation in San Francisco (Instructional materials)
- Documenting Brown 2 : Plessy v. Ferguson (Instructional materials)
- Documenting Brown 3 : Gong Lum v. Rice (Instructional materials)
- Documenting Brown 5 : Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (Instructional materials)
- Documenting Brown : collected excerpts (Instructional materials)
- Mendez v. Westminster : desegregating California's schools (Instructional materials)
- The road to Brown (Instructional materials)
- Simple justice 1 : a handful of lawyers (Instructional materials)
- Simple justice 3 : the trial begins (Instructional materials)
- Simple justice 4 : arguing the Fourteenth Amendment (Instructional materials)
- Simple justice 5 : Marshall's closing statement (Instructional materials)
- Simple justice 6 : Justice Warren reads the decision (Instructional materials)