Now, his family’s fight to get Homer Plessy pardoned will make its way to Governor John Bel Edwards, who will take the final decision over the pardon.

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 Adolph Plessy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 17, 1862, to a family of mixed racial heritage. His family could pass for white and were considered "free people of color." ...

Several websites present this photo as one of Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson fame. But it's not. It's of another one-time New Orleanian: P.B.S. Pinchback, who in 1872 served briefly as ...

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 ...

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) ...

For my family, I’ve spoken to several family members, ... “Imagine if Homer Plessy had won,” Morial said. “We would not have had some 70 years of racial division.

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. He also knew it could have historic ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is set to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the mixed-race Creole shoemaker at the center of the historic Plessy v. Ferguson case, at a ceremony in New Orleans on ...

In his opinion for the Court, handed down on May 18, 1896, Justice Henry Billings Brown explained that, as a technical matter, he didn’t have to address Homer Plessy’s particular “mixture of ...

Keith Plessy, a Plessy first cousin, three generations removed, was emotional as he said the moment meant much to him and his family: “Homer Plessy will have his way today.” ...

Homer Plessy, the Louisiana man whose Supreme Court loss set the template for Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s, was posthumously pardoned Wednesday. Plessy, a Black man, intentionally boarded a &#8… ...