Louisiana Gov. Set to Pardon Homer Plessy, 125 Years After SCOTUS ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling

5:21am PST - January 5th, 2022    supreme court ruling - Time

On Jan. 11, 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty in a New Orleans district court for sitting in a whites-only train car, eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and a doctrine of “separate but equal” legislation that made wa…