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Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

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Homer Plessy has been pardoned for arrest that led to 'separate but equal' ruling

Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.