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Reed’s <em>The South</em> is unique among memoirs of the Jim Crow era in that it is intertwined with historical and social analysis.

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...

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, Luther College will host Phoebe Ferguson and Keith Plessy, descendants of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson landmark decision, for a conversation with President Jenifer K. Ward in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall.

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.

March could well be designated Homer Plessy month, as it was both the birth and death month of the celebrated plaintiff in one of America's most infamous Supreme Court decisions.