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 ...

“I too lived in the shadow of Plessy v. Ferguson,” said Louisiana pardon board member Alvin Roche when announcing his decision in November to recommend the posthumous pardon. “It is an honor ...

In the annals of the Supreme Court, the Plessy v. Ferguson case has little competition for the title of Worst Decision in History. Now, 125 years after the shameful decision that codified the Jim ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed Ferguson's decision, and Plessy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, composed of nine White men, heard arguments in Plessy v. Ferguson on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina Law School and Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School discussed how the precedent in Plessy v. Ferguson impacted other cases involving segregation.

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 ...

"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 ...

Among those growing up in the segregated society that Plessy v. Ferguson facilitated were two now 64-year-old descendants of figures closely tied to the case: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson ...

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 ...