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Author Archives: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, Plessy and Ferguson Initiative
Posted inOpinion

There’s healing to be done in New Orleans, say descendants of Homer Plessy and John H. Ferguson

by Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, Plessy and Ferguson Initiative

At the top edge of the Bywater, where Royal Street crosses the railroad tracks, a plaque marks a moment that changed our nation’s history.  A shoemaker named Homer Plessy was arrested here in 1892 for sitting in a passenger railcar designated for “whites.”  The arrest was planned; Plessy’s friends, the Citizens Committee, called ahead to […]