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 ...

Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site ...

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 -- ...

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.

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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 ...

When the Louisiana legislature in 1890 passed the Separate Car Act, which mandated the racial segregation of railroad passengers, a group of black activists set out to challenge the law. They chose ...

In addition to a record, history more often than not provides a road map. That’s certainly true in terms of the long road to ...

On any list of famous Supreme Court rulings, Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that resulted in the “separate but equal” ruling, appears near the top. In his fascinating new book, “Separate: The Story ...

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 ...