Louisiana governor pardons Homer Plessy, whose segregation protest went to the Supreme Court

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Louisiana governor pardons Homer Plessy, whose segregation protest went to the Supreme Court – CBS News

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, the New Orleans man whose 1892 arrest for sitting in a Whites-only railroad car led to a notorious Supreme Court decision upholding segregation laws. Watch the governor’s remarks at the signing ceremony.

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