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.

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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. The moment of ...

The marker, installed just before 6 a.m. Saturday, is a project of the Plessy and Ferguson Initiative, run by descendants of Homer Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the named participants in the ...

A Black business district in New Orleans that was forced out due to highway construction receives a historic marker to honor its legacy.

Homer Plessy Elementary School had left the building, taking the only remaining school out of the French Quarter, last year after district officials said $15 million worth of maintenance was ...

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.