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Homer Plessy was born on March 17th, 1863 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Homer Plessy refused to move from the white's only section. He challenged the law and bought a ticket from the white's only section.
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Plessy was then arrested and was in jail overnight and was realeased on a $500 bond on June 17th, 1892.
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Plessy was found guilty. The case went on to the U.S. Surpreme Court in 1894 and Plessy's 13th and 14th were being fought and being violated. Homer Plessy than lost to the court.
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During the proceedings, Justice William Billings Brown defined that it was separate but equal. Which made Jim Crow Laws legal and African Americans civil rights were still being violated.
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Afterward, Plessy returned to his regular life as an insurance salesman.
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Homer Plessy died March 1st,1925 at age 62 in New Orleans, Lousiana.
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Even though Plessy lost to the court, this civil rights activist had a major impact on the civil rights movement.
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The NAACP incorportated Plessy 14th amendment arguments before the U.S Surpreme Court in the 1954 landmark case Brown vs. Board of education, which overuled segregation illegal.
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In 2016, Plessy's legacy has also been reconized in establishment of ''Homer A. Plessy Day'' in New Orleans, with a park named in his honor as well.
