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Homer A Plessy Community School

New Orleans, Louisiana - Artwork at the Homer A Plessy Community School, an elementary charter school in the French Quarter. It is named after Homer Plessy, a black traveler arrested in New Orleans in 1892 for violating a railroad segregation law. Plessy's arrest led to the Supreme Court ruling establishing "separate but equal" as the law of the land, which prevailed until 1954.

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Image Description:	New Orleans, Louisiana - Artwork at the Homer A Plessy Community School, an elementary charter school in the French Quarter. It is named after Homer Plessy, a black traveler arrested in New Orleans in 1892 for violating a railroad segregation law. Plessy's arrest led to the Supreme Court ruling establishing "separate but equal" as the law of the land, which prevailed until 1954.
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