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When was Homer Plessy posthumously pardoned by the governor of Louisiana?
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson judgment, issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896, advancing the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
Homer Plessy was posthumously pardoned by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards in 2022.1