Homer Plessy, a Creole shoemaker from New Orleans and the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday, 130 years ...

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.

Homer Plessy's name, long associated with the "doctrine of separate but equal," will now be part of our racial reckoning ...

Overlooked No More: Homer Plessy, Who Sat on a Train and Stood Up for Civil Rights He boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans with the hope of getting the attention of the Supreme Court.

Homer Plessy, civil rights pioneer in Supreme Court case, is pardoned by John Bel Edwards "Pernicious effects" of case "linger still in terms of race relations, equality and justice" ...

With a Pardon, Homer Plessy’s Record Is Clear, but a Painful Legacy Endures He boarded a whites-only train with the hope of undoing racist laws.

Plessy was arrested trying to board a "whites-only" train car. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of laws that kept schools, housing and other venues segregated.

Homer Plessy was pardoned more than a century after his conviction for riding a whites-only train helped institutionalize discrimination for decades.

The Internet will tell you it's Homer Plessy at seemingly every turn. But the Internet, it lies. I discovered this recently when pulling together my story on the Plessy v.

Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for Homer Plessy, whose refusal in 1892 to leave a Whites-only railcar led the Supreme Court to uphold ...

The last remaining school in the French Quarter is moving, because it's too small and too expensive to fix the building.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who ...