The committee chose Plessy to take on a new law mandating “equal but separate” accommodations for Black and white riders of Louisiana railways. By 1943, the Supreme Court "separate but equal ...

Ferguson, was pardoned by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday, 130 years after Plessy challenged a Louisiana law that required Black passengers and white passengers to use separate train ...

Whatever a jurisdiction’s rule, 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 ...

The state Board of Pardons in November recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car as a member of a small civil rights group hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains.

Plessy’s lawyer, Albion Tourgée, then appealed the ruling before the Louisiana Supreme Court, arguing that the Separate Car Act violated the 14th Amendment, which, ratified in 1868, guaranteed ...

STEVE LUXENBERG, a former Washington Post editor, tells the history around Plessy v. Ferguson, the disastrous 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld a Louisiana law mandating separate railroad cars ...

Plessy's act was organized by the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens Committee), a New Orleans civil rights group, to test the constitutionality of the law. Violators of the law were subject to a $25 ...

A crime. To test and protest that unprecedented Louisiana law, 29-year-old Homer Plessy volunteered himself for arrest on a June day in 1892. Now, nearly 130 years later, he will be pardoned for ...

Plessy was a test case. It challenged a law that Louisiana passed in 1890, the Separate Car Act, requiring railroads to maintain separate cars for white and “colored” riders—in order ...

Brown, after all, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but ... It’s what ensures that constitutional law is a rule of law, not a rule of nine individual jurists. Of course, rights ...

Evan D. Bernick, Dobbs, Plessy, and the Constitution of the New Jane Crow, Northern Illinois U. Law Rev. (2023) Women and girls enter U.S. jails and prisons every year. Nearly a million are on ...