Keith Plessy, right, and Phoebe Ferguson stand Feb. 11, 2009, on the railroad tracks at the intersection of of Royal and Press streets in New Orleans, where on June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a Creole ...

Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Wednesday, 130 years after defying a Jim Crow segregation law.

Keith Plessy, first cousin thrice removed of Homer Plessy, poses May 1, 2007, in the location where his ancestor, a Creole man of African descent, was arrested for boarding a "Whites only" train ...

When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey to Covington, La., would be brief.

Descendants of Homer Plessy like to say that he was a civil rights activist before most people in Louisiana were familiar with such a term. In 1892, Plessy, a racially mixed shoemaker, boarded a ...

NEW ORLEANS – Homer Plessy's name was cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson.

Homer Plessy, Who Protested Segregation, Is One Step Closer To A Posthumous Pardon. ByCarlie Porterfield, Former Staff. I cover breaking news. Nov 12, 2021, 01:35pm EST Apr 21, 2022, 08:13am EDT.

The final decision on a pardon for Homer Plessy, a Black man who refused to leave a Whites-only train car in 1892, now rests with the governor of Louisiana.

Homer Plessy's name, long associated with the "doctrine of separate but equal," will now be part of our racial reckoning. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana.

The Homer A. Plessy Community School at 721 St. Philip St., the only school in the New Orleans French Quarter, is shown Feb. 27, 2022.