Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to pardon Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a Jim Crow law creating “Whites-only” train cars. The Plessy v. Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ...

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