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UNITED STATES | Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling is pardoned

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century.

UNITED STATES | Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling is pardoned

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