Inside the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1892, Homer Plessy was charged for sitting in the Whites-only section of a train car. Plessy pleaded guilty and was ...

Homer Plessy, Who Protested Segregation, Is One Step Closer To A Posthumous Pardon. ... Nearly 130 years later, Plessy’s descendants launched an effort to get his record cleared, ...

Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson create unlikely friendship 07:03. ... and a person like Homer Plessy had to go and ride a train and break a law in order to get their attention," Plessy said.

Keith Plessy speaks during a ceremony in New Orleans before his famous ancestor, Homer Plessy, is pardoned on Jan. 5, 2022. (Credit: Louisiana Gov. on YouTube) ...

Homer Plessy was found guilty in the late 1800s for refusing to give up his seat in a 'whites only' part of a train car. ... Descendants of Plessy and Ferguson meet as pardon nears.

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 […] The post Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson actors ...

More than 120 years ago, a man boarded a train on Press Street in New Orleans and was arrested -- on purpose -- aboard a fateful train ride to Covington. His name was Homer Plessy, and his case ...

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, ...

"Homer Plessy more than did his part," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Wednesday while signing the pardon ... "We come here as descendants of both sides of the Plessy v.

For my family, I’ve spoken to several family members, ... “Imagine if Homer Plessy had won,” Morial said. “We would not have had some 70 years of racial division.

Who is Homer Plessy, namesake of Supreme Court ruling whose family seeks a pardon? ‘When Homer Plessy died in 1925 everyone remembered his name as somewhat the poster child of segregation’ ...