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.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - Louisiana’s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was
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Plessy was arrested trying to board a "whites-only" train car. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of laws that kept schools, housing and other venues segregated.