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.

Plessy’s case made it all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896, when justices ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that the Louisiana law was constitutional because the law stipulated equal ...

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.

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” ...

Keith Plessy, 64, who is descended from a cousin of Homer Plessy’s, told the board that he remembers meeting civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who refused in 1955 to leave a whites-only seat on a bus in ...

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.