Homer Plessy was seven-eighths White and one-eighth Black pejoratively referred to as an “octoroon” in the 19th century. Plessy came of age during the age of Reconstruction in New.
Juneteenth is just one of many historic observances that commemorate the journey to freedom and the ongoing fight for equality, Harriett Gaston told attendees
Juneteenth is just one of many historic observances that commemorate the journey to freedom and the ongoing fight for equality, Harriett Gaston told attendees
A book about the unlikely friendship between descendants of the opposing parties in the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case upholding racial segregation has been updated to include a new coda: the recent move to pardon Homer Plessy for having boarded a whites-only train in 1892.