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 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented ...
On any list of famous Supreme Court rulings, Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that resulted in the “separate but equal” ruling, appears near the top. In his fascinating new book, “Separate: The Story ...
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards officially issued a posthumous pardon for the man behind the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The pardon for Homer Plessy arrived nearly 97 years ...
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