Homer Adolf Plessy purchased a ticket from New Orleans to Covington and took a seat in the “white” section of the East Louisiana Railroad Company train. Railroad officials ordered Plessy to the “colored” car. When he refused, a police officer forcibly ejected Plessy and hurried him off to the parish jail in New Orleans. Officials charged Plessy with violating a recently enacted state law—one of many Jim Crow laws enacted in the late 1800s as whites moved to entrench their power in state governments–that barred persons from occupying rail cars other than those to which their race had been assigned.
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Our Black Lawyers: From Charles Hamilton Houston to Barack Obama and on…
Before there was Johnnie Cochran, there was Charles Hamilton Houston.
Below is a TBS video made in its 1991 Black History Month Series. In this video, Barack Obama, then the first black president of Harvard Law Review, renders homage to Charles Hamilton Houston another great black ancestor, a legal legend who made the way and shone the light for many of alive today.
King Kenneth Dub and King Kenneth III of Soctland, (The Sons of the Black) By Oguejiofo Annu
Black Romans: Emperor Constantine the Great – by Oguejiofo Annu
Jewish Musicians in Muurish Spain
Black Romans: Saint (Princess) Anastasia Constantine, the Sister of Emperor Constantine
Anastasia was the daughter of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and half sister of Emperor Constantine I. Emperor Constantine proposed marrying her to form an alliance with Bassianus; however, Bassianus was found to be plotting against Constantine and the marriage was called off.
