The Arrest of Homer Plessy

Episode 479,   Jun 07, 2023, 07:00 AM

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June 7, 1892. Homer Plessy is arrested for sitting in the “whites-only” compartment of a train, leading up to the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson which heralded an era of racist legislation in America.


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