Plessy Historical Marker

ID: 1136

This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson Historical Marker on Press Street, the former site of the East Louisiana Railroad.

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…