View from St. Peter Street, 1889
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A chain barrier on St. Peter Street blocked traffic when court was in session at the Cabildo. Courtesy of Harper's Weekly.
This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson
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…