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This new edition of Together includes an
Epilogue which describes the ultimate "flip on the script" that happened a year
after the first edition's publication, when the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation
that Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson had created in 2009 achieved one of its
goals: to change the legacy of the Supreme Court case that links their families
in history. In 2022, a dedicated legal team helped win a posthumous pardon for
Keith's ancestor, Homer Plessy, whose arrest in 1892 for sitting in a train car
for white passengers led to the infamous 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme
Court decision that established "separate-but-equal" as the legal underpinning for
decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes.
In Together, Amy Nathan threads the
personal stories of Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, both born in New Orleans in
1957, showing how they learned of their connection to that Supreme Court case
and started their Foundation to help people learn from the past to "create a more just and equitable
future." Together intertwines
their story with the wider history of that court case, race relations, civil
rights protests, and the impact that court case still has on life today.