Plessy's Pardon

ID: 6454 ~ Source: Janet McConnaughey, "Man whose arrest led to ‘separate but equal’ is pardoned," January 5, 2022, AP, https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-business-arrests-new-orleans-race-and-ethnicity-6e9456e6c4517afe9e041fc9d0359179.

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

In January of 2022, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed the posthumous pardon of Homer Plessy for violating the 1890 Separate Car Act. Descendants of the case, Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, look on.

This file appears in: Plessy's Legacies

Plessy's Legacies

By Lauren Smith, Johnnie Roberson, and Erika Heppner

In the immediate aftermath of Plessy v. Ferguson, the case itself received relatively little attention. Homer Plessy paid the twenty-five dollar fine for violating the Separate Car Act and went to work as a laborer. Before the ruling, segregation…