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
Louisiana's governor has posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark case that laid the legal foundation for decades of racial segregation.
By Kathleen Flynn
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Louisiana s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine and laid the legal foundation for decades of racial segregation.
Governor John Bel E.