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 ...
“If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane” —From the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, ...
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