Facts about Plessy v. Ferguson, and an explanation of who Plessy and Ferguson were in the famous separate but equal case. A Henry Louis Gates, Jr. blog.

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, ...

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 ...

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 Tuesday, June 7, 2011.

Nearly 114 years ago, their ancestors stood on opposing sides in the history-making Plessy v. Ferguson court case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal" treatment of blacks in the ...

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 ...

Keith Plessy, a cousin of Plessy's three generations removed, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of Ferguson, gathered at the historic site in New Orleans.

So the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation was born, and on Tuesday it will celebrate another anniversary of Homer Adolph Plessy's decision to buy a railroad ticket for the June 7, 1892, train trip from ...

The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision led to widespread segregation through the establishment of Southern laws and social customs known as “Jim Crow.” ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is set to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the mixed-race Creole shoemaker at the center of the historic Plessy v. Ferguson case, at a ceremony in New Orleans on ...

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 ...