Louisiana Governor Pardons Plessy, 125 Years After ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling in Plessy v Ferguson
After 125 years, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards pardoned on Wednesday Homer Plessy of the 1897 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson for sitting in an whites only" train car. The case paved the way for separate but equal" segregation laws for nearly half a century. The posthumous pardon ceremony took place on...