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.

Phoebe Ferguson is the great-great-granddaughter of John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana district court judge who was the first to uphold the state’s segregation law after Homer Plessy was ...

Phoebe Ferguson is the great-great-granddaughter of John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana district court judge who was the first to uphold the state’s segregation law after Homer Plessy was ...

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.

Present at the ceremony were descendants of Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who convicted Plessy of violating racial segregation laws and ordered him to pay a $25 fine (more ...

A legal battle ensued between Plessy and Judge John Howard Ferguson, leading all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy vs. Ferguson. In the end, the New Orleans native lost, making way for ...

Plessy was charged with violating the "Separate Car" act. He pled guilty to the charges and Judge John Howard Ferguson fined him $25. Today, the fine would be around $763.59.

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 ...

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 ...