More than 120 years ago, a man boarded a train on Press Street in New Orleans and was arrested -- on purpose -- aboard a fateful train ride to Covington. His name was Homer Plessy, and his case -- ...

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, May 18, 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Plessy vs. Ferguson, determining that the law ordering separate but equal spaces for white people and non-white people was ...

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This week marks the 125th anniversary of the start of a legal journey that began in New Orleans and ended in the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 7, 1892, New Orleanian Homer A. Plessy boarded a "whites ...

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 ...

What did the ins and outs of the 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, the rationale for Jim Crow racial segregation laws, teach us? Homer Plessy was seven-eighths White and ...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" — racial segregation. A fresh look at how it echoes... Plessy V. Ferguson: How 'Separate But Equal' ...

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 ...

Racial and social justice advocacy groups are planning to unveil a new plaque July 30 at the Roosevelt Hotel to honor the victims of a city-sanctioned racist massacre that occurred nearly 160 years ...