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 ...

According to Plessy Schools CEO, the school will relocate to the Leah McKenna School on Tonti Street for the 2023-24 school year.

The final decision on a pardon for Homer Plessy, a Black man who refused to leave a Whites-only train car in 1892, now rests with the governor of Louisiana.

Homer Plessy receives posthumous pardon An earlier version of this digest item incorrectly described the effects of the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

Meanwhile, a photographer, Phoebe Ferguson, got a phone call from a man who bought the home of Judge John Howard Ferguson, who presided over the Plessy v State of Louisiana case.

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 ...

Most people with a basic understanding of American history are familiar with Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that established “separate but equal." (In essence, racial ...

Jeannot Plessy was going to pick up the couple’s two pre-teen children at David Plessy’s daughter's home on Prentiss Avenue in the Seabrook subdivision when the ambush happened about 8:30 p.m.

A petition gained more than 1,000 signatures online to stop the potential move of Homer Plessy Community School from its current home in the French Quarter. Parents said it is the last school in ...

“Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation,” by Steve Luxenberg, is an elegant history of the mostly losing battle to protect the civil ...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" — racial segregation. A fresh look at how it echoes today.