Homer Plessy

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11 mentions 3 recordings first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Aug ↑4 vs the 6 months before

Historical figure who challenged segregation laws on a train

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Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Ji... · 1:10 · 6 Aug
…Plessy refuses to go, and moments later, the train comes to a screeching halt as Plessy is arrested, setting into motion one of the most pivotal cases in American Supreme Court history.…
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Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Ji... · 0:48 · 6 Aug
…For a minute or two, Plessy gazes out the window at the stacked cotton bales, warehouses, and chimneys billowing smoke from the city's cotton presses.…
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Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Ji... · 0:45 · 6 Aug
…He knows exactly what is about to happen.…
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Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Ji... · 0:38 · 6 Aug
…It's 1892, and inside a first-class whites-only car, Homer Plessy……
NatalieGhosteas · Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2 · 9:19 · Mar 2025
…So as I said, many influential New Orleanians are buried……
Mark SmithThroughline · History of the Self: Smell and Memory · 31:18 · Dec 2024
…And it's Homer Plessy, because he's trying to prove a……
Christina KimThroughline · History of the Self: Smell and Memory · 31:12 · Dec 2024
…And a conductor who was in on Plessy's plan asks……
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