Governor Edwards pardons Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling

Governor John Bel Edwards is slated 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

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