They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an act of civil disobedience. On June 7, 1892, Plessy boarded the "white" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Born on March 17, 1863 ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892, in a planned act of civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the ...

The Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education decisions of the Supreme Court are foundational texts for understanding the history of the civil rights movement. Chief Justice ...

Oral arguments in Idaho case make clear that further, even more radical attacks on reproductive freedom are coming.

In 2018, a section of Press Street in the Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans where Homer Plessy attempted to board a “whites-only” train car in protest of segregation was renamed to Homer Plessy Way.

Three pre-eminent speakers join IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed to discuss the threat to civility, the erosion of institutional trust, ...

Among the tombs you'll spot are those belonging to Voodoo queen Marie Laveau, numerous New Orleans city mayors, as well as Homer Plessy (plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v.

(I have a galley version and hope to blog more extensively about the mess soon.) Posner argues that Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that racial segregation of public facilities did not ...

Let’s pick up where we started 32 weeks ago. You, faithful reader of this column, may recall that in three columns, we reviewed the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court opinion taking race-based college and ...

When two animals look the same, eat the same, behave the same way, and live in similar environments, one might expect that ...

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Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, making schools open for all. The Mississippi Delta ...