Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestors’ legacies after one of those ancestors was granted the first posthumous pardon ...

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 ...

Homer Plessy has finally been pardoned posthumously, pending the Lousiana governor's approval, more than 100 years after he was arrested for not moving from a section of a train that was prohibited to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a "whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 ...

It's a friendship two decades strong between the descendants of two people who turned the course of American history. Keith Plessy is the distant cousin of an African American shoemaker turned ...

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 Court ruling that cemented ...

“Separate but equal.” These three words carry the burden of an oppressive period in American history, and we have long known their lie: Separate can never be equal; separate is inherently unequal. Yet ...

Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana. Plessy’s ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a "whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 ...