NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a "whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate ...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy Wednesday, more than 100 years after the Black shoemaker and activist was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only train car, a ...
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