Louisiana Governor Pardons Homer Plessy of 'Separate But Equal' Ruling
The state Board of Pardons recommended a posthumous pardon for Plessy in November.
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Louisiana governor pardons Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling
NEW ORLEANS -- 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 segregation sparked the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cemented "separate but equal" into law for half a century.
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126 years after the 'separate but equal' ruling, Homer Plessy is pardoned
Plessy was arrested trying to board a "whites-only" train car. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of laws that kept schools, housing and other venues segregated.
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Homer Plessy of 'separate but equal' ruling officially pardoned
Louisiana’s governor pardoned the Black man whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave an all-white railroad car led to the ruling that cemented “separate but equal”
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Governor Pardons Plessy, of 'Separate But Equal' Ruling
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whi
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