These United States: Brown v. Board of Education These United States: Brown v. Board of Education 02:53 In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a “Whites-only” railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest, and made “separate but equal” the law of the land. …
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