During Reconstruction, the federal government expanded the vote to blacks in the South, and provided some equal protection to black citizens. As Reconstruction failed, however, white supremacists ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling, has been recommended for ...

When the Louisiana legislature in 1890 passed the Separate Car Act, which mandated the racial segregation of railroad passengers, a group of black activists set out to challenge the law.

When Homer Plessy boarded a ‘Whites Only’ train carriage in New Orleans in 1892, he knew he would be arrested – in fact, that was his plan. He was mixed race, and a member of a civil rights ...