More specifically, he invoked the emotionally charged dissent in Plessy by Justice John Marshall Harlan, the most famous thunderbolt ever delivered from the bench. “In closing, I would say that ...

Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for Homer Plessy, whose refusal in 1892 to leave a Whites-only railcar led the Supreme Court to uphold ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday formally pardoned Homer Plessy, the long-dead civil rights pioneer whose stand against racial segregation led to an infamous U.S. Supreme Court case.

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 governor ...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will sign a posthumous pardon clearing the name of Homer Plessy more than a century after Plessy was ejected from a "whites only" train car in New Orleans for ...

Sponsor Message At a ceremony held near the spot near where Plessy was arrested, Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was "beyond grateful" to help restore Plessy's "legacy of the rightness of his cause ...

Instead, the protest led to the 1896 ruling known as Plessy v. Ferguson, solidifying whites-only spaces in public accommodations such as transportation, hotels and schools for decades. Gov.

John Bel Edwards granted the pardon for what he called an "unjust criminal conviction" during a ceremony near the site of the arrest that was attended by relatives of Plessy and John Ferguson ...

Plessy answers, “Yes,” prompting Dowling ... Five months later, on Nov. 18, 1892, Orleans Parish criminal court Judge John Howard Ferguson, a “carpetbagger” descending from a Martha ...

"Plessy stood as law of the land longer than Roe. That was [John Cornyn's] point. Now if liberals are arguing Brown v. Board of Ed was wrongly ruled because of long standing precedent, then they ...

Plessy’s legal team challenged the conviction and the case ended up in the Supreme Court in May 1896. Its defendant was John Howard Ferguson, the judge who had convicted Plessy. During oral ...