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

In 1892, Homer Plessy, a Creole of color, was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, Plessy v.

In 1892, Homer Plessy, a Creole of color, was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld ...

When he gives an African American history tour, Higgins said, “most people are interested in hearing about progressive things that happened after slavery,” like New Orleans native Homer Plessy and his ...

Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University may be novel, but it is not new. It is, in fact, a resurrection of a previous kind of discrimination. There’s one other time ...

Abandoning his previous attempts to portray white protagonists, "The Sport of the Gods" follows a Black Southern family forced to migrate north when their patriarch is falsely imprisoned.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

A New Orleans man by the name of Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth Black, had refused to sit in a train car designated for Black people. Plessy was arrested and claimed that his 14th Amendment ...

Homer Plessy Community School in New Orleans was bustling Monday as students returned from a two-week winter break when, around 9 a.m., the hallways and classrooms grew eerily still.