Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday issued a pardon for Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which infamously upheld laws imposing ...

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.

The state Board of Pardons recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer ...

Nearly 130 years after Homer Plessy was charged with sitting in the “all-white” train car, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned him Wednesday. “While this pardon has been a long time ...

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 state ...

Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a Whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation sparked the U.S.

Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented ...

NEW ORLEANS - Homer Plessy's name was officially cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only train triggered the "separate but equal" Supreme Court ruling that ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ...

"Homer Plessy more than did his part," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Wednesday while signing the pardon Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for ...