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June 02, 2026

Homer Plessy, a 30 year-old Black shoemaker, is jailed for sitting in the "white" car of a Louisiana railroad on this date in 1892.

New York Post Protest

Black Inventions

Ali Sharif

POSTED: February 20, 2009, 7:37 am

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