Monday, June 13, 2011

Plessy And (Not Versus) Ferguson

Keith Plessy, a descendant of Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court's infamous 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of the Louisiana trial court judge who upheld Louisiana's separate-but-equal law, have started a new civil rights education organization, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation.

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