Nearly 130 years later, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy.

The governor of Louisiana issued a posthumous pardon Wednesday to Homer Plessy, who lent his name to one of the most infamous decisions in Supreme Court history. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards ...

Homer Plessy was pardoned more than a century after his conviction for riding a whites-only train helped institutionalize discrimination for decades.

The pardon for Homer Plessy arrived nearly 97 years after his death, which occurred in 1925. In 1892, Plessy boarded a whites-only railroad car in protest of a Louisiana state law segregating trains.

Homer Plessy of 'Separate but Equal' Case Posthumously Pardoned a Century After Segregation Arrest "Homer Plessy more than did his part," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Wednesday while ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson.

The state Board of Pardons in November recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car as a member of a small civil rights group hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains.

The state Board of Pardons in November recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car as a member of a small civil rights group hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains ...

Louisiana governor to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy 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 ...

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Courts 1896 separate but equal ...