Henry B. Brown #52 (1836-1913)

Board #198 - 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’.

Plessy was arrested! The judge found the law of segregation unconstitutional. Thus, Plessy v Ferguson found its way to the Supreme Court.

This case invented the term: separate but equal.

It may be hard to believe but America lived under the umbrella of misinterpretation until 1954 and the decision of Brown v Board of Education.

Board # 198 says it all.

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