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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Keith Plessy, right, and Phoebe Ferguson stand Feb. 11, 2009, on the railroad tracks at the intersection of of Royal and Press streets in New Orleans, where on June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a Creole ...

Louisiana's governor says he will posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave a “whites only” railroad car wound up putting “separate but equal” into U.S. law.

Ferguson. One wonders whether 100 years from now Americans will be wrestling with the implications of these two landmarks of constitutional jurisprudence, and with the issue at the core of both: race.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson.