In late 2019, when my editor at the New York Times obituary desk asked me if I wanted to write an “Overlooked No More” obituary for Homer Plessy, I had to pause for a long moment to call up that name.

A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling affirming state segregation laws. The state Board of Pardon's ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards officially issued a posthumous pardon for the man behind the Supreme Court's 1896 ...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has issued a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson that upheld the “separate but ...

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 ...

Homer Plessy has finally been pardoned posthumously, pending the Lousiana governor's approval, more than 100 years after he was arrested for not moving from a section of a train that was prohibited to ...

Area students got a chance Tuesday to hear interesting anecdotes about “Plessy V. Ferguson” from the descendants from the original case participants. As part of Constitution Day at The Robert H.

Left-wing MSNBC host Joy Reid took to Twitter Tuesday for an odd rant aimed at the U.S. Supreme Court, predicting its future decisions concerning voting laws would mirror those made by the court that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana’s governor said Wednesday that he will definitely sign a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave a “whites only” railroad car wound up ...

NEW ORLEANS — When Homer Plessy, commissioned by the Citizens Committee, refused to move from a white's only railway car to the blacks-only car, he was arrested and convicted of violating the ...

In a case of severely belated justice, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has announced that he will issue a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Black man whose 1896 arrest led to the infamous U.S.