The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

On Dec. 1, 2023, the CEO of Homer Plessy Community Schools wrote a letter to NOLA-PS Superintendent Avis Williams requesting the elementary school to be moved to the McKenna building.

It's been nearly a year since Homer Plessy Community School was forced to move out of its historic but aging building in the French Quarter, uprooting the Vieux Carre's last ...

6:00. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, SEVEN DEVELOPING TODAY. THE LAST SCHOOL IN THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL STAY WHERE IT IS FOR NOW. HOMER PLESSY SCHOOL WAS SET TO RELOCATE TO THE SEVENTH WARD FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL ...

Homer Plessy students will move out of French Quarter for at least a year $3.5 million in repair work will require students to move to another campus next school year. Long-term plans remains unknown.

6:00. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, SEVEN DEVELOPING TODAY. THE LAST SCHOOL IN THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL STAY WHERE IT IS FOR NOW. HOMER PLESSY SCHOOL WAS SET TO RELOCATE TO THE SEVENTH WARD FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL ...

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, a C-rated school, teaches kindergarten through fourth grade at its French Quarter campus and fifth through eighth grades at its campus less than a mile down St. Philip Street in Treme.

Keith Plessy speaks during a ceremony in New Orleans before his famous ancestor, Homer Plessy, is pardoned on Jan. 5, 2022. (Credit: Louisiana Gov. on YouTube) ...

Inside the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1892, Homer Plessy was charged for sitting in the Whites-only section of a train car. Plessy pleaded guilty and was ...

Homer Plessy lent his name to one of the most infamous decisions in Supreme Court history, which found "Jim Crow" laws segregating public accommodations to be constitutional.

But Homer Plessy himself, a shoemaker and activist, took his Supreme Court defeat, pleaded guilty to violating the Separate Car Act of 1890 and paid a $25 fine (the equivalent of about $700 today).