Homer Plessy has finally been pardoned posthumously, pending the Lousiana governor's approval, more than 100 years after he was arrested for not moving from a section of a train that was prohibited to ...

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 ...

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on June 7, 2011. Staff ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 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 equal.” These three words carry the burden of an oppressive period in American history, and we have long known their lie: Separate can never be equal; separate is inherently unequal. Yet ...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" —which is to say racial segregation. A fresh look at how it came to be and how it echoes today. At his ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 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 ...