3/29/2024 0 Comments Radiocaster v.107![]() National Homer Plessy, of Supreme Court ruling that upheld segregation, is up for pardon Keith Plessy, whose great-great-grandfather was Plessy's cousin, called the event "truly a blessed day for our ancestors. undefiled by the wrongness of his conviction." John Bel Edwards said he was "beyond grateful" to help restore Plessy's "legacy of the rightness of his cause. Ferguson, which solidified whites-only spaces in public accommodations such as transportation, hotels and schools for decades.Īt a ceremony held near the spot near where Plessy was arrested, Gov. Instead, the protest led to the 1896 ruling known as Plessy v. The state Board of Pardons in November recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car as a member of a small civil rights group hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains. 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 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented "separate but equal" into U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, was granted a posthumous pardon, Wednesday, Jan. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V.
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