A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of Pardon's ...

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 ...

Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for Homer Plessy, whose refusal in 1892 to leave a Whites-only railcar led the Supreme Court to uphold state ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of ...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has issued a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson that upheld the “separate but ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark “separate but equal” 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who died with a ...

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 to protest racial ...

Homer Plessy boarded the train in New Orleans, first-class ticket in hand. His instructions were clear: Head for the “whites-only” car and await his arrest. The June 1892 incident played out just as ...

Louisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy on Wednesday. Plessy v. Ferguson was argued at the US Supreme Court in 1896, ushering in "separate but equal" laws. Plessy ...