NEW ORLEANS — 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 Court’s 1896 “separate ...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards officially issued a posthumous pardon for the man behind the Supreme Court's 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The pardon for Homer Plessy arrived nearly 97 years ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board has posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS – 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 Court’s 1896 “separate ...

More than a century after he lent his name to the infamous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that enshrined the “separate but equal” doctrine in law, Homer Plessy could finally have his name cleared. The ...

A Louisiana board voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose case Plessy v. Ferguson led to the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" doctrine. Nearly 130 years after his 1892 arrest, Plessy's record is one ...

On any list of famous Supreme Court rulings, Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that resulted in the “separate but equal” ruling, appears near the top. In his fascinating new book, “Separate: The Story ...

On Friday, the Louisiana Board of Pardons unanimously recommended clearing the name of Homer Plessy with a posthumous pardon. The 19th century civil rights pioneer was involved in one of the most well ...

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. The state ...