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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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

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 has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who ...

Louisiana board pardons Homer Plessy ahead of the 125th anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson 04:34 The Supreme Court's decision upholding the doctrine of separate but equal remained in place until ...

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.

Plessy, who is Black, and Ferguson, who is white, both live in New Orleans and are in their 60s. They spoke at a free Zoom webinar held to celebrate Monday's 67th anniversary of the historic Brown v.

As the only voice on the Supreme Court against Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan did more than anyone since the Continental Army to enshrine dissent as an American tradition.