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On Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed the state’s first posthumous pardon for Homer A. Plessy, who was convicted of violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, the purpose of which was to ensure racial segregation as a means to promote white supremacy. Gov. Edwards was joined by descendants of …
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