The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Homer Adolph Plessy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 17, 1862, to a family of mixed racial heritage. His family could pass for white and were considered "free people of color." ...

On Dec. 1, 2023, the CEO of Homer Plessy Community Schools wrote a letter to NOLA-PS Superintendent Avis Williams requesting the elementary school to be moved to the McKenna building.

It's been nearly a year since Homer Plessy Community School was forced to move out of its historic but aging building in the French Quarter, uprooting the Vieux Carre's last ...

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the original plaintiffs and defendants in the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, will be in Jamestown on Tuesday for a Constitution Day program.

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 ...

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) ...

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 lent his name to one of the most infamous decisions in Supreme Court history, which found “Jim Crow” laws segregating public accommodations to be constitutional.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme ...

But Homer Plessy himself, a shoemaker and activist, took his Supreme Court defeat, pleaded guilty to violating the Separate Car Act of 1890 and paid a $25 fine (the equivalent of about $700 today).