P&F IN THE NEWS
Louisiana Board Votes to pardon Homer Plessy of Plessy v Ferguson
Washington Post, 2021
Now, 125 years after the shameful decision that codified the Jim Crow-era “separate but equal” fiction, the namesake of that famous case, Homer Plessy, may be pardoned. The Louisiana Board of Pardons unanimously approved a pardon Friday, according to the Associated Press, sending it to Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) for final approval…
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Descendants of landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Case Join Forces to Further Civil Rights Education
Preservation Research Center, 2018
The two are, some might argue, the unlikeliest of work partners and close friends. But for Phoebe Ferguson, descendant of Judge John H. Ferguson, and Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy of the landmark 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson case, their friendship was natural and almost immediate…
Section of Press Street to be renamed Homer Plessy Way
The Louisiana Weekly, 2018
On April 5, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to rename a portion of Press Street to Homer Plessy Way, in honor of the civil rights icon.
No, Internet, this is not Homer Plessy. But who is it?
NOLA.COM, 2017
In 1872, P.B.S. Pinchback became the first American of African descent to serve as the governor of a U.S. state when he served briefly as governor of Louisiana….
Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson Unite To Form Non-Profit
Huffpost, 2017
The descendants of old rivals are now friends who have teamed up to form a civil rights non-profit…..
New Orleans' preservation efforts honored
NOLA.com, 2017
Several New Orleans projects were recognized at Preserve Louisiana's 41st annual Preservation Awards in Baton Rouge on Sept. 6 at the Watermark Hotel, which earned a Bricks & Mortar Award for developer Mike Wampold…
Plessy-Ferguson Foundation Works to Have Homer Plessy Honored with Medal of Freedom
The New Orleans Tribune, 2016
In observance of the 120th anniversary of the Plessy vs. Ferguson Decision on May 18, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation is embarking on an historic initiative to have Homer Plessy posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his significant role in the American Civil Rights Struggle…
Constitutional Faces: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, Descendants of Plessy v. Ferguson Litigants, Unite
Josh Blackman’s Blog, 2011
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 represent the opposing principals in one of the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions,Plessy v. Ferguson , which upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow laws mandating segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stood from 1896 until the court’s historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954…
'Plessy v. Ferguson': Who Was Plessy?
The Root, 2013
Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 35: Who was the Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal policy for separating the races?
Plessy and Ferguson: Descendants of a Divisive Supreme Court Decision Unite
The Washington Post, 2011
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…
Descendants Team Up to Teach the Positive Lessons of the Infamous 'Plessy v. Ferguson'
The Christian Science Monitor, 2011
Long before Rosa Parks in 1955 refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., to protest racial segregation, Homer Plessy had already been on a hot seat…
Plessy and Ferguson Unveil Plaque Today Marking Their Ancestors' Actions
NOLA.com, 2009
Keith Plessy, right and Phoebe Ferguson stand on the railroad tracks at the corner of Royal and Press Streets on Wednesday where on June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested after boarding a train designated for whites only….