Judge J. H. Ferguson, Criminal Court

ID: 1133

This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson

John Howard Ferguson presided over Plessy's case. He ruled that the state of Louisiana had the right to regulate railroad companies as long as they operated within state boundaries. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune.

This file appears in: Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana, University of New Orleans History Department & Nik Richard

On June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old African-American man named Homer Plessy attempted to board a segregated East Louisiana Railroad passenger train car at Press and Royal Streets in New Orleans. Louisiana's Separate Car Act, passed in 1890, required…