Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon. Plessy, a Creole man of color, was arrested in New Orleans for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in 1892.http://apne.ws/ePWjWfg
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CORRECTS: A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling. Gov. John Bel Edwards has final say over the pardon.http://apne.ws/RZ6hXyo
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A little late, but it’s something…
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Back turn clock
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Perfect and long overdue!!!
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@CNN@washingtonpost@MSNBC@nytimes@HuffPost@chicagotribune Right thing to do. We can still right some of the wrongs of the past. If you have a law abiding loved one that was unjustly convicted with a racist Jim Crow law, it is time to fight it & have their memory honoured.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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100 years too late too little.
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Did trump ask anyone how he can stop Plessy from getting out of jail?
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So all the innocent folks who are in jail now just have to die and wait till their cases are posthumously re-investigated and they TOO WILL GET JUSTICE....good ..good
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