In 1896, when Homer Plessy challenged the new racial caste system that forbade Blacks from sitting alongside whites on trains, the United States Supreme Court held that such "Jim Crow"
We’re all sometimes captivated by the “what-ifs” of history: You know: What if Hillary Clinton hadn’t all but ignored campaigning in the Upper Midwest in in 2016, and so hadn’t lost those states to Donald Trump. Or what if the people who tried to poison Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1930 had realized that he was vegetarian, and so wasn’t interested in the deadly repast that might have spared the world his “Final Solution.”
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