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Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad The post Homer Plessy, Black man behind ‘separate ...
The Plessy v Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate but equal” accommodations that kept Black people in segregated schools ...
On June 7, 1892, Plessy purchased a ticket for a "whites only" first-class train coach, boarded the train, and was arrested by a private detective hired by the group. Judge John Howard Ferguson ruled against Plessy in a state criminal district court, upholding the law on the grounds that Louisiana had the right to regulate railroads within its ...
He was at the center of an infamous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Plessy sat in the "whites-only" passenger car. When the conductor came to collect his ticket, Plessy told him that he was 7/8 white and that he refused to sit in the "blacks-only" car. Plessy was immediately arrested by Detective Chris C. Cain, put into the Orleans Parish jail, and released the next day on a $500 bond. [8]
Paulo Exequiel Dybala (born 15 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team.
Crane was convicted on September 25, 1929, of the murder of "his former sweetheart" [217] and on March 28, 1930, of the murder of the man accompanying her at the time of the shooting. [218] Trevor Crowe: Retired United States September 2020 (plea) Tax fraud: 3 years probation, $85,043 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service
A Florida gamer was arrested Sunday for shooting both his parents — killing his father after the dad reportedly asked him to get a job, according to local police.