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New Orleans Celebrates Plessy Day

By Morgan Lawrence Today marks the 125th anniversary of the arrest of Homer Plessy for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890. To honor the occasion, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation will present its annual “​Plessy Day Celebration” at 6 p.m. today (Wednesday, June 7)  at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in the Old U.S. Mint, […]