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Homer Plessy of 'separate but equal' ruling posthumously pardoned

Keith Plessy, Homer Plessy s descendant: I m holding back tears because I m too happy to cry. ....

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Plessy v. Ferguson | Summary, Ruling, Background, & Impact

Plessy v. Ferguson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial ‘separate but equal’ doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. ....

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Governor Edwards pardons Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling

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 ....

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Homer Plessy of 'separate but equal' ruling posthumously pardoned

Keith Plessy, Homer Plessy s descendant: I m holding back tears because I m too happy to cry. ....

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Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal' ruling, pardoned by Louisiana governor

Plessy, a shoemaker, purchased a first-class ticket on June 7, 1892, to board a Louisiana train. He sat in the Whites-only section and refused to leave when a conductor ordered him to move to a rail car reserved for Blacks. ....

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