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 ...

The Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld the decision, and the case eventually moved to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Plessy's side arguing that the Separate Car Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments.

Today, more than 120 years after the landmark case, Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson are working together on the same side of Civil Rights. They are founders of the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation ...

As part of Constitution Day at The Robert H. Jackson Center the “Plessy v. Ferguson — From Vs to &: A Living Legacy” presentation was held where Phoebe Ferguson and Keith Plessy gave detailed ...

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Plessy, giving legal standing to segregation. The ruling would divide America along racial lines for decades. Blacks in some states had ...

The Plessy v Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate but equal” accommodations ...

Justice Harlan’s immortal dissent became law in the landmark case of Brown v. Board. Of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), in which the Court overturned Plessy and held that “separate but ...

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 ...

Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 allowed segregation laws in the states, as long as facilities were “separate but equal” for Blacks. Hardaway said slavery was racist, sexist, inhuman and immoral.

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on June 7, 2011.