Phoebe Ferguson, a great-great-granddaughter of Judge John Howard Ferguson and Keith Plessy, a first cousin three times removed of Homer Plessy, speak in front of the Plessy v.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. They spoke with WWL-TV after the hearing.

Dignitaries and descendants of both Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who initially upheld the state's segregation law, advocated for the pardon.

Nearly 114 years ago, their ancestors stood on opposing sides in the history-making Plessy v. Ferguson court case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal" treatment of blacks in the ...

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 ...

Phoebe Ferguson, great-great granddaughter of Judge John Howard Ferguson, who ruled against Plessy and upheld the law that made racial segregation on public transit in Louisiana a crime, was also ...

In a nod to the historic implications of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ... Its defendant was John Howard Ferguson, the judge who had convicted Plessy. You May Also Like. HISTORY & CULTURE.

Judge John Howard Ferguson ruled against Plessy from his bench in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. The judge was born in Massachusetts and had strong ties to abolitionists, she said.

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.