This month marks the 130-year anniversary of one of the most infamous cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Plessy ...

When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of ...

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 June 7, 2011. Staff ...

When the Louisiana legislature in 1890 passed the Separate Car Act, which mandated the racial segregation of railroad passengers, a group of black activists set out to challenge the law. They chose ...

Homer Plessy has finally been pardoned posthumously, pending the Lousiana governor's approval, more than 100 years after he was arrested for not moving from a section of a train that was prohibited to ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestors’ legacies after one of those ancestors was granted the first posthumous pardon ...

The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling brought 58 years of presumed "separate but equal" schools, bus seats and water fountains for Blacks and whites in the U.S. before being overturned in ...

Elie Mystal says the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais is reminiscent of the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson ...

“Separate but equal.” These three words carry the burden of an oppressive period in American history, and we have long known their lie: Separate can never be equal; separate is inherently unequal. Yet ...