Governor to pardon Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train cars, on Wednesday.

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