Homer Plessy Community School had occupied the historic red-brick building until last year, when district Superintendent Avis ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Neighborhood advocates hopeful as the Orleans Parish School Board announced a deal that would result in Lycée Français occupying the only school in the French Quarter and ...

The New Orleans Police Department has arrested three students connected to citywide school threats. According to ...

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 ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling, has been recommended for ...

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 ...

The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history. Plessy was ...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy on Wednesday, the Black man whose infamous case before the Supreme Court — Plessy v. Ferguson — ushered in "separate but ...