From New York’s many New Year’s “sports and entertainments”—including football games, an open house at the Young Men’s ...

Owned and operated by Norfolk Southern, the freight rail and the trains that pass along it frequently disrupt traffic on St. Claude and Homer Plessy Way, highly traveled areas in the historic ...

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.

Homer Plessy Community School is a charter school located in New Orleans, LA, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Homer Plessy Community School is 779 and the school serves ...

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.

Fredrick "Wood" Delahoussaye and Keith Plessy unveil a permanent Louisiana State Historical Marker under the bridge on N. Claiborne Ave. in New Orleans, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.

From the 1830s until the 1970s, Black people used the area to shop. New Orleans has bestowed a historic marker on a Black business district shut down by the development of an interstate highway ...

The district planned a $3.5 million capital improvement project for the building, which forced Homer Plessy to relocate to the McKenna building in the 7th Ward at the end of the 2022-23 school year.

After the Homer Plessy Community School moved out of the "Little Red Schoolhouse," the French Quarter was left without a school for the first time since 1860. That could soon change.

Plessy hardly needs summarizing; it’s one of history’s most widely known and universally loathed cases. Homer Plessy’s lawsuit started after he was arrested for refusing to move from a ...

Nonetheless, some people challenged these racial classifications. Homer Plessy, for example, was a member of the free people of colour in New Orleans.

“158 years have gone by and they have not been recognized, says Keith Plessy, Co-Founder of the Plessy and Ferguson Initiative and a descendant of Homer Plessy.