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 ...

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In 1896, the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson laid down the law on racial segregation and the boundaries of the equal protection clause of the 14 th Amendment. At the time, Louisiana had a racial ...

ENGINEERS ROAD AND OUTER NEW DETAILS ABOUT A STORY THAT HAS CAUSED CONTROVERSY IN YEARS PAST. IT IS OFFICIAL THE LAST DAY, THE LAST SCHOOL, RATHER IN THE CITY’S FRENCH QUARTER, IS MOVING TO THE ...

"There is no expiration date on justice." Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Mr. Homer A. Plessy who challenged Louisiana's segregation laws in the ...

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ...

Today in Louisiana, the governor granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy. In 1892, Plessy, a Black man, refused to leave a whites-only train and was arrested. The eventual Supreme Court 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 ...

When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey to Covington, Louisiana, would be brief. Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker ...

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Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon. The Creole man of color died with a conviction still on his record ...