Tag: Keith Plessy

  • In the annals of the Supreme Court, the Plessy v. Ferguson case has little competition for the title of Worst Decision in History.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.

  • Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…