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Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; , or March 17, [lower-alpha 1] – March 1, ) was an American shoemaker and activist, who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court.
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Homer Plessy was a shoemaker whose one act of civil disobedience helped inspire future generations of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The son of French-speaking Creoles (see octoroon), Homer Plessy was born on St. Patrick's Day in , at a time when federal troops under General Benjamin Franklin Butler were occupying Louisiana as a result of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and had liberated African Americans in New Orleans who had been in bondage but Plessy was a gens du couleur libre and his family came to.