“Our Constitution is color-blind.”

National Park Service’s Homer Plessy page https://www.nps.gov/people/homer-plessy.htm

Historic New Orleans Collection article on Plessy and the activists behind the case. https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/homer-plessy-and-black-activists-who-fought-segregation-all-way-supreme

64 Parishes page on the Comité des Citoyens — strong source for the group’s formation in 1891, its French-speaking Afro-Creole leadership, and its role in challenging the Separate Car Act. https://64parishes.org/entry/comite-des-citoyens

Plessy & Ferguson Initiative history page — very useful because it directly states Plessy was arrested June 7, 1892, at Press and Royal streets and connects the action to the Press Street Railroad Yards.https://www.plessyandferguson.org/history-plessy-v-ferguson

National Archives “Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) https://www.plessyandferguson.org/history-plessy-v-ferguson

Cornell Legal Information Institute’s full Plessy v. Ferguson opinion https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537

Library of Congress guide to Plessy v. Ferguson primary documents https://guides.loc.gov/plessy-ferguson?utm_source=chatgpt.com

New Orleans Tribune’s role, Guillaume as a young Creole cigar maker, Love Street/Rampart Street, the police chase, and the May 8, 1867 streetcar integration victory. https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/protests-politics-and-police-chase-fight-integrate-streetcars-1867