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, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a Whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to a Supreme Court ruling that ...

Louisiana governor pardons Homer Plessy, whose segregation protest went to the Supreme Court 17:36. Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for ...

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.

Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, was granted a posthumous pardon, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Bill Haber/AP ...