Posted on Jan 5, 2022

Civil rights leader Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling, to be pardoned

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"Louisiana's governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a Jim Crow law creating "whites-only" train cars."

Civil rights leader Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling, to be pardoned

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SPC Kevin Ford

Posted >1 y ago

This is one of those things that can't ever be made right. But we can do things like this to make it clear it was wrong.

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SFC Randy Hellenbrand

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Red states never do the right thing right away.

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Civil rights leader Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling, to be pardoned

Civil rights leader Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling, to be pardoned

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