Homer Plessy was classified as an "Octoroon" by 19th-Century New Orleans standards, meaning he was one-eighth African in descent. Plessy had one black grandmother, a Haitian "free woman of color," named Catherine Mathieu, who married and bore eight children with Homer's French Caucasian grandfather, Germain Plessy. Homer was very light-skinned, and said his African heritage was "not discernable."
Plessy belonged to a group of New Orleans' African-American professionals, the Citizens Committee, that deliberately staged confrontations over Jim Crow laws in Louisianna. The law targeted in this case was Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which required separation of travelers by race. If Plessy's arrest hadn't been prearranged with the East Louisiana Railroad Company, he probably wouldn't have been challenged for sitting in the "whites only" car.
You can access a photo of Homer Plessy via Related Links, below.
New Orleans, Louisiana on March 17, 1863.
His parents were (Joseph) Adolphe Plessy and Rosa Debergue
who were both free people of color before the Civil War.
Homer Plessy was born March 17, 1863.
New Orleans, Louisiana
1896
No, it appears Homer Plessy was intelligent, healthy and strong. Nothing in the literature suggests otherwise.
No. No relationship.
Plessy had three children an when they moved one of there childern had got hit by a car for playing in the street in Washington d.c
he married a 19 year old women named Louise Plessy was 25 at the age he married her they were 6 years apart
Homer Plessy was classified as an "Octoroon" by 19th-Century New Orleans standards, meaning he was one-eighth African in descent. Plessy had one black grandmother, a Haitian "free woman of color," named Catherine Mathieu, who married and bore eight children with Homer's French Caucasian grandfather, Germain Plessy. Homer was very light-skinned, and said his African heritage was "not discernable."Plessy belonged to a group of New Orleans' African-American professionals, the Citizens Committee, that deliberately staged confrontations over Jim Crow laws in Louisianna. The law targeted in this case was Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which required separation of travelers by race. If Plessy's arrest hadn't been prearranged with the East Louisiana Railroad Company, he probably wouldn't have been challenged for sitting in the "whites only" car.You can access a photo of Homer Plessy via Related Links, below.
he live in new Orleans Louisiana
Homer Plessy was 1/8 (.123%) black.
No.
No, it appears Homer Plessy was intelligent, healthy and strong. Nothing in the literature suggests otherwise.
Homer Plessy was born March 17, 1863.
1926
yes he had eight children
No. No relationship.
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From the plaintiff, Homer Plessy, and the defendant, John Howard Ferguson.
He was one eighth african American