Tue May 06 2025

In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled against Homer Plessy, a Black man who boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans. The ruling legalized "separate but equal" segregation in the US until 1954. Why did Plessy board that train? What were those 1890s Black activists trying to do? Why did it backfire? And what are the descendants of Homer Plessy and the convicting judge, Henry Ferguson, doing today to fight for justice and to set the historical record straight?