Legal experts and historians have relegated Plessy to the âdustbin of history.â Back in 2009, journalist David Savage, writing for the ABA Journal, looked at how liberals, moderates, and conservatives ...
During Reconstruction, the federal government expanded the vote to blacks in the South, and provided some equal protection to black citizens. As Reconstruction failed, however, white supremacists ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) â Louisianaâs 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 ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) â Louisianaâs 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 ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A crowd gathered on NOCCAâs campus Wednesday morning to commemorate one of the stains of Louisianaâs civil rights past. â130 years ago, Homer Plessy bought a ticket, boarded a ...
It's a friendship two decades strong between the descendants of two people who turned the course of American history. Keith Plessy is the distant cousin of an African American shoemaker turned ...
Keith Plessy, Phoebe Ferguson and Kate Dillingham took a moment together earlier this week to contemplate their ancestorsâ legacies after one of those ancestors was granted the first posthumous pardon ...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has the opportunity to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark âseparate but equalâ 1896 Supreme Court Plessy V. Ferguson ruling who died with a ...
The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Today in ...
NEW ORLEANS â 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 ...
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. Plessyâs ...
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