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Powerful Photo of the Day: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson — descendants of Homer Adolph Plessy and John Howard Ferguson of the infamous racial-segregation-upholding Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson — stand on the very same spot in New Orleans where Plessy was arrested for refusing to move from the whites-only rail car, triggering the landmark case.

Keith, the great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s first cousin, and Phoebe, the great-great-granddaughter of John Ferguson, met in 2004 and founded the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation — an organization dedicated to civil rights education — a short time later.

“The first thing I said to her,” Plessy says about their initial encounter, “was, ‘Hey, it’s no longer Plessy versus Ferguson. It’s Plessy and Ferguson’.”

[wapo.]