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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Plessy died on March 1, 1925, and was buried in St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans. He was 61. At a book signing in 2004, Medley introduced Keith M. Plessy, a distant relative of Homer Plessy, to ...

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 &#82… ...

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 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.