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Louisiana's governor Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented "separate but equal" into U.S. law for half a century.
At a ceremony held in Louisiana near the spot where Plessy was arrested, Governor John Bel Edwards said he was beyond grateful to help restore Plessy s legacy of the rightness .