John Howard Ferguson. "I remember thinking, 'Well, my name's Ferguson,'" said Phoebe Ferguson, the judge's great-great-granddaughter. "And I think by fourth grade we had learned something about it.

Phoebe Ferguson is the descendant of Judge John Howard Ferguson. He’s the one who found Homer Plessy guilty. And Ed Murray was the state senator in 2006, who wrote The Avery Alexander Act.

Descendants of Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the judge who oversaw his case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, became friends decades later and formed a nonprofit that advocates for ...

Relatives of Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the judge who oversaw his case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, became friends decades later and formed a nonprofit that advocates for civil ...

• Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors' actions Phoebe Ferguson, a documentary filmmaker whose ancestor participated in an infamous 1892 U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

Decedents of both Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the judge who oversaw the case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court also testified at the hearing.

Five months later, on Nov. 18, 1892, Orleans Parish criminal court Judge John Howard Ferguson, a “carpetbagger” descending from a Martha’s Vineyard shipping family, became the “Ferguson ...

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Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the original plaintiffs and defendants in the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, will be in Jamestown on Tuesday for a Constitution Day program.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is set to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the mixed-race Creole shoemaker at the center of the historic Plessy v. Ferguson case, at a ceremony in New Orleans on ...

When his case was heard in criminal court four months later, Judge John Howard Ferguson chose not to hold a trial and instead, he upheld the constitutionality of the Louisiana Separate Car Act ...