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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 Plessy's '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…