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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:34 AM Jan 2022

Louisiana Governor to pardon Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling

Earlier DU thread: Louisiana board votes to pardon Homer Plessy, namesake of Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal"

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Source: Associated Press

Governor to pardon Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY
January 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a Jim Crow law creating “whites-only” train cars.

The Plessy v Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate but equal” accommodations that kept Black people in segregated schools, housing, theaters and other venues.

Gov. John Bel Edwards scheduled the pardon ceremony for a spot near where Plessy was arrested in 1892 for breaking a Louisiana law requiring Black people to ride in cars that the law described as “equal but separate” from those for white customers. The date is close to the 125th anniversary of Plessy’s guilty plea in New Orleans.

Relatives of both Plessy and the judge who convicted him were expected to attend.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-business-arrests-new-orleans-race-and-ethnicity-6e9456e6c4517afe9e041fc9d0359179


FILE - Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy V. Ferguson court case, pose for a photograph in front of a historical marker in New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon. The Creole man of color died with a conviction still on his record for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans in 1892. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

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Louisiana Governor to pardon Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2022 OP
k & r obamanut2012 Jan 2022 #1
If I were Plessy I wouldn't attend that. It's a hollow, BS ceremony... brush Jan 2022 #2

brush

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2. If I were Plessy I wouldn't attend that. It's a hollow, BS ceremony...
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:54 AM
Jan 2022

designed for photo ops which make the governor and state look good but doesn't nothing to correct the century plus of harsh racism. I'd tell them to send a check for the arrest, the undoubtedly forced guilty plea, and all the trouble and hardships it caused Black people.

Matter of fact, there should thousands of checks sent out.

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