{"id":62230,"date":"2021-11-13T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62230"},"modified":"2021-11-16T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:35:09","slug":"62230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62230","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana board votes to pardon Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana board votes to pardon Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2021-11-12<\/p>\n

Gillian Brockell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>
Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the principals in the Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/a> court case, in front of a historical marker in New Orleans<\/a> on June 7, 2011. (Bill Haber\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the annals of the Supreme Court, the Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em><\/a> case has little competition for the title of Worst Decision in History. Now, 125 years after the shameful decision that codified the Jim Crow-era \u201cseparate but equal\u201d fiction<\/a>, the namesake of that famous case, Homer Plessy<\/a>, may be pardoned. The Louisiana Board of Pardons unanimously approved a pardon Friday, according to the Associated Press<\/em>, sending it to Gov. John Bel Edwards<\/a> (D) for final approval.<\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019s press office said the governor was traveling \u201cbut looks forward to receiving and reviewing the recommendation of the Board upon his return.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Keith Plessy, a descendant of Homer Plessy, heard the news, he felt like his feet \u201cweren\u2019t touching the ground.\u201d He and his friend Phoebe Ferguson, a descendant of the judge in the case, hopped in the car and were driving across New Orleans<\/a> to the house of another friend \u2014 Homer Plessy biographer Keith Weldon Medley<\/a> \u2014 to share the news when they spoke with The Washington Post<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the annals of the Supreme Court, the Plessy v. Ferguson case has little competition for the title of Worst Decision in History.Now, 125 years after the shameful decision that codified the Jim Crow-era \u201cseparate but equal\u201d fiction, the namesake of that famous case, Homer Plessy, may be pardoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,369,8,20],"tags":[32373,22499,1447,32371,6481,9780,32372,6482,579,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-62230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-gillian-brockell","tag-homer-adolph-plessy","tag-homer-plessy","tag-john-bel-edwards","tag-keith-plessy","tag-keith-weldon-medley","tag-louisiana-board-of-pardons","tag-phoebe-ferguson","tag-plessy-v-ferguson","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62289,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62230\/revisions\/62289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}