NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana board on Friday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.
Homer Plessy, a Creole man whose arrest for boarding a whites-only train car became the basis for the Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, may have his conviction cleared after a Louisiana
A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws
Homer Plessy was arrested in 1892 after boarding the train car as part of a civil rights’ group’s efforts to challenge a state law that mandated segregated seating.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana board votes for pardon of Homer Plessy, namesake of 1896 Supreme Court “separate but equal” ruling affirming segregation (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that
By Chris Boyette and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana.
