About 30 students and faculty gathered to hear a discussion of Washington Post associate editor Steve Luxenberg’s book, “Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America’s Journey from Slavery to ...

On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a “whites-only” railroad car in New Orleans. Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by ...

Written by Robert Barnes Suggested Reading Prince’s Best Performances, In Commemoration of His 10-Year Death Anniversary Why Gerrymandering Efforts From Both Parties Are Targeting Black Voting ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state ...

Descendants of the opposing principals in one of the most famous civil-rights cases in American history have joined forces in a nonprofit education group, writes The Washington Post. The Plessy & ...

The very words evoke feelings of disgust and repugnance in Americans who are historically literate and possess a functioning conscience. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In this 1896 ...

“If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane” —From the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, ...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" — racial segregation. A fresh look at how it echoes... Plessy V. Ferguson: How 'Separate But Equal' ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: A.P. Tureaud Jr. is a Son with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2021 Forum. On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Plessy ...