Descendants of the plantiff and defendant in the Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld segregation visited Port Allen High School for a presentation before about 200 kids.

Plessy’s legal team challenged the conviction and the case ended up in the Supreme Court in May 1896. Its defendant was John Howard Ferguson , the judge who had convicted Plessy. You May Also Like ...

When Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson decided to start a new civil rights education organization that would bear their famous names, they sealed the deal in a fitting local spot: Cafe Reconcile.

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson court ... More case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans on June 7, 2011.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who ...

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, 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.

Facts about Plessy v. Ferguson, and an explanation of who Plessy and Ferguson were in the famous separate but equal case. A Henry Louis Gates, Jr. blog.

So the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation was born, and on Tuesday it will celebrate another anniversary of Homer Adolph Plessy's decision to buy a railroad ticket for the June 7, 1892, train trip from ...

So the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation was born, and on Tuesday it will celebrate another anniversary of Homer Adolph Plessy's decision to buy a railroad ticket for the June 7, 1892, train trip from ...