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Governor to pardon Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor is preparing a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in “whites-only” train cars. The Plessy v Ferguson ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate
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