Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestors’ legacies after one of those ancestors was granted the first posthumous pardon ...

On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a “whites-only” railroad car in New Orleans. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by ...

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NEW ORLEANS – Homer Plessy's name was cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that institutionalized ...

Descendants of the opposing principals in one of the most famous civil-rights cases in American history have joined forces in a nonprofit education group, writes The Washington Post. The Plessy & ...

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He also knew it could have historic implications. Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker who had agreed to take part in an act of civil disobedience orchestrated by a New Orleans civil rights ...

Two local high schools commemorate Homer Plessy Day on Saturday, June 7. The celebration marks the anniversary of Plessy’s arrest in 1892, leading to the landmark Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state ...

Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented ...

The Sunday, June 21 op-ed column "Plessy changed the 'nature of things'" by Robert Jakubowicz on the long-term negative impact of Plessy v. Ferguson brings to mind a number of local connections. Given ...

The very words evoke feelings of disgust and repugnance in Americans who are historically literate and possess a functioning conscience. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In this 1896 ...