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 ...
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 -- ...
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 ...
Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy, the court constitutionalized racial segregation in the South. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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