A New Orleans street sign bears the name of Homer Plessy

ID: 6451 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Keith Plessy

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

A New Orleans street sign bears the name of Homer Plessy

In 2018, Press Street, the location of the East Louisiana Railroad ticket station, became Homer Plessy Way, in honor of the civil rights activist.

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

Plessy's Legacies

By Lauren Smith, Johnnie Roberson, and Erika Heppner

In the immediate aftermath of Plessy v. Ferguson, the case itself received relatively little attention. Homer Plessy paid the twenty-five dollar fine for violating the Separate Car Act and went to work as a laborer. Before the ruling, segregation…