Draft:The Pardon of Homer Plessy

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Comment: There's not enough new information here that isn't already covered in the Homer Plessy article. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

In 1892, Homer Plessy boarded a whites-only railway car in New Orleans, Louisiana in protest of Louisiana’s Separate Car Act. Consequently, he was arrested as a criminal. The ruling in his trial, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), was upheld by the United States Supreme Court and reaffirmed racial segregation under the “Separate but Equal” doctrine.

In January 2022, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy.^[1] The pardon was issued in accordance with "The Avery C. Alexander Act.'^[2] This 2006 act was passed by the Louisiana Legislature to expedite the pardon process for individuals who were criminalized and convicted under Louisiana laws created for the purpose of maintaining or enforcing racial separation or discrimination of individuals.

References[edit]

^ Price, Anna (2022-01-19). "The Posthumous Pardon of Homer Plessy | In Custodia Legis". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
^ "Louisiana Laws - Louisiana State Legislature". www.legis.la.gov. Retrieved 2024-03-08.

https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/february-2022/a-pardon-for-homer-plessy-the-long-arc-of-pernicious-jurisprudence

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070593964/homer-plessy-posthumous-pardon-plessy-v-ferguson-separate-but-equal

[1] Price, Anna (2022-01-19). "The Posthumous Pardon of Homer Plessy | In Custodia Legis". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-09-07.

[2] "Louisiana Laws - Louisiana State Legislature". www.legis.la.gov. Retrieved 2024-03-08.

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