{"id":62705,"date":"2022-01-06T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62705"},"modified":"2022-01-06T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:02:05","slug":"homer-plessy-pardon-for-separate-but-equal-civil-rights-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62705","title":{"rendered":"Homer Plessy: Pardon for ‘separate but equal’ civil rights figure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homer Plessy: Pardon for ‘separate but equal’ civil rights figure<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2022-01-05<\/p>\n

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Governor Bel Edwards<\/a> signed the pardon near the site of Plessy’s arrest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The governor of Louisiana<\/a> has pardoned Homer Plessy<\/a>, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court<\/a> decisions in US history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Plessy was arrested in 1892 after he purchased a ticket and refused to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1896, the top US court ruled against Plessy, clearing the way for Jim Crow segregation laws<\/a> in the American South<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pardon was spearheaded by the very office that sought charges against him.<\/p>\n

After Plessy was removed from the train, his case – Plessy v Ferguson<\/em><\/a> – wound up in front of the Supreme Court<\/a>. The court ruled that accommodations can exist for different races – a doctrine dubbed “separate but equal<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Their decision stood for decades, until the landmark 1954 Brown v Board of Education<\/em><\/a> case helped begin to dismantle racial segregation laws..<\/p>\n

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

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