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 ...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who died with a ...
Phoebe Ferguson, a great-great-granddaughter of Judge John Howard Ferguson and Keith Plessy, a first cousin three times removed from Homer Plessy, speak in December 2021 in front of Plessy V. Ferguson ...
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 ...
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 ...
Homer Plessy boarded the train in New Orleans, first-class ticket in hand. His instructions were clear: Head for the “whites-only” car and await his arrest. The June 1892 incident played out just as ...
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 ...
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