Henry B. Brown #52 (1836-1913)

Justice Henry B. Brown #52 (1836-1913) on May 18, 1896 the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in the case of: Homer Adolph Plessy v J. H. Ferguson

Homer Plessy boarded a East Louisiana railway train on June 7, 1892. Plessy was a racially mixed shoemaker who with help from a New Orleans civil rights organization designed to challenge the law by purchasing a ticket in a white’s only car. He boarded and was asked if he was “colored” (he was 7/8’s white.) He replied yes but refused to retire to the ‘colored car’.