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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented ...

About 30 students and faculty gathered to hear a discussion of Washington Post associate editor Steve Luxenberg’s book, “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to ...

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Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" — racial segregation. A fresh look at how it echoes... Plessy V. Ferguson: How 'Separate But Equal' ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

"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 ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s governor said Wednesday that he will definitely sign a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave a “whites only” railroad car ...