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 &#82… ...

The final decision on a pardon for Homer Plessy, a Black man who refused to leave a Whites-only train car in 1892, now rests with the governor of Louisiana.

For his part, Plessy returned home, pled guilty in the district court and paid a $25 fine. He returned to a life of obscurity and his brave act of resistance was mostly lost to history.

6:00. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, SEVEN DEVELOPING TODAY. THE LAST SCHOOL IN THE FRENCH QUARTER WILL STAY WHERE IT IS FOR NOW. HOMER PLESSY SCHOOL WAS SET TO RELOCATE TO THE SEVENTH WARD FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

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 a Supreme Court ruling that ...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the historic Supreme Court decision that endorsed "separate but equal" — racial segregation. A fresh look at how it echoes today.

Homer Plessy doesn’t need validation from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Pardon Board or anyone else. His place in history is clear, firm and everlasting.

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