When Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson decided to start a new civil rights education organization that would bear their famous names, they sealed the deal in a fitting local spot: Cafe Reconcile. They ...

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 ...

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of Pardon's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 114 years ago, their ancestors stood on opposing sides in the history-making Plessy v. Ferguson court case that established the doctrine of "separate but equal" treatment of blacks in the ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who died with a ...

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 ...