An excerpt from The Crusader details Homer Plessy’s arrest on the train car. The article reports that Plessy “would go to jail first before relinquishing his right as a citizen.” Desdunes and Martinet, among other members of the Comité, met Plessy at the police station to offer bail.

ID: 6475 ~ Source: The Crusader, June 1, 1892, Xavier University of Louisiana, The New Orleans Crusader Newspaper Collection (1889-1896), https://jstor.org/stable/community.31024897.
This file appears in: Louis A. Martinet and Albion Tourgée
An excerpt from The Crusader details Homer Plessy’s arrest on the train car. The article reports that Plessy “would go to jail first before relinquishing his right as a citizen.” Desdunes and Martinet, among other members of the Comité, met Plessy at the police station to offer bail.
This file appears in: Louis A. Martinet and Albion Tourgée