The Plessy Ferguson Foundation spearheaded a donor campaign to pay for the state historical plaque. In a companion ... trial judge in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ...

Homer Plessy, a Creole shoemaker from New Orleans and the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday, 130 years ...

Steve Luxenberg, a longtime associate editor at The Post, is the author of “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation.” The twisted pursuit ...

"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 ...

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an ... That would not change until 1954, when the Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" denied the ...

After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, segregation became even more ensconced through a battery of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” Schools, theaters, restaurants ...

His case went all the way to the Supreme Court where, in the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, the court ruled that states could legally segregate on basis of race as long as it was “separate but ...

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld legal segregation in 1886. Nick Capodice and Julia talk about how the case continues to be relevant today. You can listen to Civics 101 ...

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, announced 125 years ago Tuesday, is duly remembered as one of the great abominations in legal history. By endorsing the notorious separate-but ...

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.