Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the man at the center of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, Plessy v. Ferguson.

Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana.

The pardon grew out of a larger effort by descendants of Plessy and Judge Ferguson to educate others on the continued relevance of Plessy’s actions and the long, devastating reach of the ruling.

Louisiana governor pardons Homer Plessy, whose segregation protest went to the Supreme Court 17:36. Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for ...

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Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, was granted a posthumous pardon, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Bill Haber/AP hide caption ...

Plessy’s pardon is not an isolated event but should be viewed within the context of civil rights activism in Louisiana. A Board of Pardons hearing on Plessy’s pardon on Nov. 12, ...

The state Board of Pardons last year 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.

The final decision on a pardon for Homer Plessy, a Black man who refused to leave a Whites-only train car in 1892, now rests with the governor of Louisiana.

Homer Plessy’s pardon will provide both opportunity and atonement November 20, 2021 More than 3 years ago Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v.

Campbell said a pardon for Plessy acknowledges his efforts and the struggles Black citizens have faced. “We’ve had to fight the whole time we’ve been in this country,’’ she said.

Until Nov. 12, when the pardon board considered the Plessy application, the law hadn’t been used as a tool for a pardon like this. The pardoning of Homer Plessy is a big deal.