Author Williamjames Hoffer talked about his book, [Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America], in which he examines the legacy of the 1896 Supreme Court decision that affirmed ...

Phoebe Ferguson, a descendant of the judge who ruled against Plessy, said the pardon "feels like a new dawn for civil rights." "This doesn't erase the wrong," Ferguson said.

Facts about Plessy v. Ferguson, and an explanation of who Plessy and Ferguson were in the famous separate but equal case. A Henry Louis Gates, Jr. blog.

The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson. Civil rights leaders continued to mount legal challenges to the separate but equal doctrine. But it remained the law of the land until 1954, ...

Today, the civil rights dissent for which Harlan is best remembered is Plessy v. Ferguson , in which the Court upheld a Louisiana state law requiring racial segregation on passenger trains.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation ...

Nearly 114 years ago, their ancestors stood on opposing sides in the history-making Plessy v. Ferguson court case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal" treatment of blacks in the ...

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, Luther College will host Phoebe Ferguson and Keith Plessy, descendants of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson landmark decision, ... and to serve as an example of how to ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who ...

In fact, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation was so frustrated by the proliferation of misidentification that it has an item on its website entitled, “No, Internet, this is not Homer Plessy!” ...

Homer Plessy was pardoned more than a century after his conviction for riding a whites-only train helped institutionalize discrimination for decades.