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Plessy was arrested trying to board a "whites-only" train car. The Supreme Courts decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of laws that kept schools, housing and other venues segregated.

Homer Plessy was 'white enough to gain access to the train and black enough to be arrested for doing so.'

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 led to the

Homer Plessy was 'white enough to gain access to the train and black enough to be arrested for doing so.'

Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in

Louisiana's governor 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 "separate but equal" into U.S. law for half a century.

Updated January 5, 2022 at 1:36 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose

At a ceremony held in Louisiana near the spot where Plessy was arrested, Governor John Bel Edwards said he was beyond grateful to help restore Plessys legacy of the rightness.

Updated January 5, 2022 at 1:36 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose

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 “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century. The state Board of Pardons last year recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded…