# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/homer-plessy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:25:50.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/homer-plessy"
name: "Homer Plessy"
slug: "homer-plessy"
description: "Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy. The resulting \"separate but equal\" legal doctrine determined that state-mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as the facilities provided for both black and white people were putatively \"equal\". The legal precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson lasted into the mid-20th century, until a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954."
tagline: "American activist (1863–1925)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1862"
deathDate: "1925-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.858438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy"
    title: "Homer Plessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy"
    title: "Homer Plessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "هومر پلسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy"
    title: "Homer Plessy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EB%A8%B8_%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "호머 플레시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Хомер Плеси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5890199"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump