Gentrification does not mean separate water fountains, but perhaps that just means we have become subtler since Jim Crow. Younger generations, happy to spend serious money so they can sip from ...

The Louisiana Board of Pardons on Friday unanimously voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a 'whites-only' railroad car to protest discrimination led to the US Supreme Court's ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892, in a planned act of civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

to men like Plessy, Tourgée and his legal associates — Louis Martinet, a Creole attorney and publisher of the New Orleans Crusader, and white attorney and former Confederate Army Pfc. James C ...

The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

What most of us don’t know — what I didn’t know until I began researching my new book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation — is ...

By James Goodman SEPARATE The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation By Steve Luxenberg In the spring of 1890, Albion Tourgée, who had fought for the ...

Homer Plessy boarded the train in New Orleans, first-class ticket in hand. His instructions were clear: Head for the “whites-only” car and await his arrest. The June 1892 incident played out ...

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 ...

Steve Luxenberg, a longtime associate editor at The Post, is the author of “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation.” The twisted pursuit ...

This month, with Overlooked, we’re adding their stories to our archives. When Homer Plessy boarded the East Louisiana Railway’s No. 8 train in New Orleans on June 7, 1892, he knew his journey ...