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Louisiana Governor posthumously pardons Plessy of the 'separate but equal' ruling

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial ...
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Homer Plessy has been pardoned for arrest that led to 'separate but equal' ruling

Today in Louisiana, the governor granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy. In 1892, Plessy, a Black man, refused to leave a whites-only train and was arrested. The eventual Supreme Court case, ...
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Louisiana board votes to pardon Homer Plessy, whose case led to SCOTUS' 'separate but equal' ruling

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state ...
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Louisiana governor to pardon Plessy of 'separate but equal' ruling

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train ...