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Louisiana's revisionist history may explain why we keep using a picture of P.B.S. Pinchback when we talk about Homer Plessy and why we forget about Oscar Dunn.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold Louisiana's historic posthumous pardoning ceremony for civil rights leader Mr. Homer A. Plessy in New Orleans Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
Plessy’s act of civil disobedience led to landmark court decision that legalized ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and ushered in Jim Crow era
He boarded a whites-only train with the hope of undoing racist laws. Instead, his arrest led to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine used to justify segregation.