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 ...

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Facts about Plessy v. Ferguson, ... the state of Louisiana now marks every June 7 as Plessy Day, and since 2009, a plaque commemorating the dramatic story that began with “A man gets on a train ...

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case, in front of a historical marker in New Orleans on June 7, 2011. (Bill Haber/AP) ...

The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson. Civil rights leaders continued to mount legal challenges to the separate but equal doctrine. But it remained the law of the land until 1954, ...

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 ...

The foundation was formed by Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the named plaintiff and original trial judge in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Wednesday, 130 years after defying a Jim Crow segregation law.

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 ...

Homer Plessy was the central figure in the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson. They also discussed the role that Judge John Ferguson played in the case. Bell Ringer Assignment.

NEW ORLEANS -- More than a century after Homer Plessy's railroad ride across Lake Pontchartrain became the basis of the country's Jim Crow laws, the descendants of Plessy and the ...

From the long-rusted slide in its playground to the discolored molding lining the top of a once-handsome 7th Ward brick building, Valena C. Jones Elementary School looks forgotten. It has ...