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.

Plessy’s decision to buy a first class ticket to Covington and sit in a carriage reserved for white people came as part of a civil rights’ group’s attempt to challenge the racist state law.

Plessy bought a first-class ticket on a New Orleans train and sat in the whites-only car. After he was seated, Plessy revealed his racial identity to a conductor and refused to move to another car.

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 ...

Plessy, a 30-year-old shoemaker, lacked the business, political and educational accomplishments of most of the other members, Keith Weldon Medley wrote in the book ”We As Freemen: Plessy v.

Several websites present this photo as one of Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson fame. But it's not. It's of another one-time New Orleanian: P.B.S. Pinchback, who in 1872 served briefly as ...

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but ...

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only” railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ...