Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Wednesday, 130 years after defying a Jim Crow segregation law.

Homer Plessy was the plaintiff in a planned attack on the Louisiana law requiring separation of the races aboard trains. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 to uphold ...

NEW ORLEANS – Homer Plessy's name was cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that ...

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.

Homer Plessy of 'Separate but Equal' Case Posthumously Pardoned a Century After Segregation Arrest "Homer Plessy more than did his part," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Wednesday while ...

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.

Descendants of Homer Plessy like to say that he was a civil rights activist before most people in Louisiana were familiar with such a term. In 1892, Plessy, a racially mixed shoemaker, boarded a ...

Homer Plessy, Who Protested Segregation, Is One Step Closer To A Posthumous Pardon. ByCarlie Porterfield, Former Staff. I cover breaking news. Nov 12, 2021, 01:35pm EST Apr 21, 2022, 08:13am EDT.

Here's a game: Quick, find a picture of Homer Plessy, the New Orleans man behind the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which gave legal cover to Jim Crow laws for more than 60 years.

Homer Plessy's name, long associated with the "doctrine of separate but equal," will now be part of our racial reckoning. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

In fact, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation was so frustrated by the proliferation of misidentification that it has an item on its website entitled, “No, Internet, this is not Homer Plessy!” ...

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.