Plessy's Arrest

ID: 1134

This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson

The Daily Picayune published notice on June 9, 1892 regarding Homer Plessy's arrest for violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune.

This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana, University of New Orleans History Department & Nik Richard

On June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old African-American man named Homer Plessy attempted to board a segregated East Louisiana Railroad passenger train car at Press and Royal Streets in New Orleans. Louisiana's Separate Car Act, passed in 1890, required…