They chose Homer Plessy to defy ... the U.S. Supreme Court, with Plessy's side arguing that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court issued ...

The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer ... history. Plessy was arrested in 1892 after he purchased a ticket and refused to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans. In 1896, the top ...