Separate and unequal / Fireside, Harvey

Chronicles the events surrounding the Supreme Court's ruling against Homer Plessy, a light-skinned New Orleans shoemaker of African lineage who violated Louisiana law by boarding a "Whites Only" railroad car in 1892, focusing on the impact the case had on the civil rights movement.

In 1892 African-American Homer A. Plessy is involved in an event of civil disobedience, but the United States Supreme Court approved segregation laws as part of life in the South and his case before it lost.