Louisiana governor pardons Homer Plessy, whose segregation protest went to the Supreme Court 17:36. Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for ...

Louisiana 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 ...

Keith Plessy, center, a descendent of Homer Plessy, shakes hands with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, after the governor ...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said he plans to schedule a high-profile profile ceremony to issue a postumous pardon to Home Plessy 130 years after Plessy was ejected from 'whites only' train ...

Governor John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy in a ceremony on Wednesday. The Pardoning comes more than a century after Plessy was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a ...

Louisiana's governor says he will posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave a “whites only” railroad car wound up putting “separate but equal” into U.S. law.

Decedents of both Plessy and John Howard Ferguson, the judge who oversaw the case in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court also testified at the hearing.

Homer Plessy was the central figure in the landmark Supreme Court Case Plessy v. ... Homer Plessy and John Ferguson. 963 Views Program ID: 440867-1 Category: C-SPAN Specials Format: Call-In ...

Texas Senator John Cornyn says “Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education” Cornyn made the remark via Twitter in a share of former President Barack Obama's statement on the Roe ...

Homer Plessy and John Ferguson. Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina Law School and Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School discussed how Homer Plessy was chosen by the Citizens Committee to ...

The Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education decisions of the Supreme Court are foundational texts for understanding the history of the civil rights movement. Chief Justice ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduled the pardon ceremony for a spot near where Plessy was arrested in 1892 for breaking a Louisiana law requiring Black people to ride in cars that the law described as ...