Homer A. Plessy

Homer Plessy (Homer Adolp Plessy) March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925 (age 62)

was a lousiana French-speaking Creole That was the plaintiff in the U.S Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson.

Arrested, tried and convicted in New Orleans of a violation of one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws, he appealed through Louisiana state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. The resulting "separate but equal" decision against him had wide consequences for civil rights in the United States. The decision legalized state-mandated segregationanywhere in the United States so long as the facilities provided for both blacks and whites were putatively "equal".