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

Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter from the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, in 1896, in which the majority invoked the “separate but equal” ...

Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy, the court constitutionalized racial segregation in the South ...

MSNBC's Joy Reid took to Twitter for an odd rant aimed at the Supreme Court, predicting its future decisions would mirror those made by the court that decided Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

Keith Plessy, a cousin of Plessy's three generations removed, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of Ferguson, gathered at the historic site in New Orleans. "It is this unjust ...

News The Marble Palace Blog: 'Plessy' and Precedent The scar of "Plessy v. Ferguson" still reverberates in the current Supreme Court. January 07, 2022 at 11:41 AM 4 minute read United States ...

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.

Plessy’s lawyers argued Louisiana’s law violated the 13th and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. However, New Orleans Judge John Howard Ferguson ruled the state had the authority to regulate ...

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case, visit a historical marker in New Orleans in 2011.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday issued a pardon for Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which infamously upheld laws imposing ...

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.