Louisiana governor posthumously pardons Homer Plessy

On Oct 31, 2022

Louisiana’s governor posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and laid the legal foundation for decades of racial segregation

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