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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Homer Plessy Community Schools elementary program is getting a new home. Leaders with Homer Plessy Community Schools and NOLA Public Schools announced Tuesday that the ...

Though the Orleans Parish school district has committed $3.5 million to fix the most pressing needs of its historic building in the French Quarter, the next steps for the Homer Plessy School community ...

Every August, Homer Plessy students walk into the Little Red Schoolhouse under a banner welcoming the “Quarter Kids” back to school. They spend Wednesdays at Cabrini Park, and during Carnival season ...

6:00. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, SEVEN DEVELOPING TODAY. THE LAST SCHOOL IN THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL STAY WHERE IT IS FOR NOW. HOMER PLESSY SCHOOL WAS SET TO RELOCATE TO THE SEVENTH WARD FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

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, for a conversation with President Jenifer K.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Homer Plessy ...