Critically important to the legal team is Plessy’s color — that he has “seven eighths Caucasian and one eighth African blood,” as Supreme Court Justice Henry Billings Brown will write in ...

For much of Plessy’s young life, New Orleans, with its large population of former slaves and so-called “free people of color,” had enjoyed at least a semblance of societal integration and ...

Nearly a century after his death, Homer Plessy is set to have his conviction for crossing the color line wiped clean. At an emotional hearing on Friday, the Louisiana Pardon Board unanimously ...

Homer Plessy could finally have his name cleared. The Creole man of color, who was arrested in New Orleans for refusing to sit in the “colored car” section of a train in 1892, is on the ...

New Orleans activists of color in Comité des Citoyens (the Citizens’ Committee) devised a plan for Plessy to board a train on June 7, 1892, and intentionally sit in the “whites only” section.

Plessy’s act of civil disobedience followed ... “Its only effect is to perpetuate the stigma of color—to make the curse immortal, incurable, inevitable,” he argued. The court disagreed.

One of the many “free people of color” who had flocked to New Orleans, mostly of French-speaking Creole descent, Plessy had grown up in a time of societal integration, education and equality.

They discussed the idea of a "color blind" Constitution and Justice Harlan's dissenting opinion. When discussing the landmark Supreme Court Case, Plessy v. Ferguson, Ted Shaw of the University of ...

Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, was granted a posthumous pardon, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. The Creole man of color died with a conviction ...

Plessy was found guilty in November of violating ... it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality ...