Yet Plessy’s arrest led to a landmark Supreme Court case that would provide federal sanction for decades of Jim Crow segregation. The New Orleans shoemaker was a member of the Citizens Committee ...

Homer Plessy, a Creole shoemaker from New Orleans and the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday, 130 years ...

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.

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Homer Plessy was convicted a month after his arrest. He was not; the judge did not rule on his guilt then, and the case made its way to the ...

One of the precedents the Court quoted prominently in support of its decision was a case it had decided thirty-one years earlier—Plessy v. Ferguson. After Dred Scott, Plessy is probably the most ...

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 ...

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld legal segregation in 1886. Nick Capodice and Julia talk about how the case continues to be relevant today. You can listen to Civics 101 ...

Justice Scalia actually says he would have agreed with Justice Harlan, who was the lone dissenter in the Plessy case that upheld “separate but equal.” Don Jr.’s ex-wife is dating the golf ...

In our man’s case, it happens to be true, and there is nothing mysterious about his plan. His name is Homer Plessy, a 30-year-old shoemaker in New Orleans, and on the afternoon of Tuesday ...