Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.
The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.
In 1896, the top US court ruled against Plessy, clearing the way for Jim Crow segregation laws in the American South.After Plessy was removed from the train, his case - Plessy v Ferguson - wound up in front of the Supreme Court. The court ruled that accommodations can exist for different races - a doctrine dubbed "separate but equal".
It was attended by Louisiana Governor Bel Edwards, as well as Plessy's descendants and those of John Howard Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who found Plessy guilty of violating the state's Separate Car Act of 1890. The law at the time required railway companies to provide "equal but separate accommodations" for black and white travellers.
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