He boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans with the hope of getting the attention of the Supreme Court. But it would be a long time before he got justice. Since 1851, many remarkable black men and women did not receive obituaries in The New York Times.
from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/obituaries/homer-plessy-overlooked-black-history-month.html
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