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Louisiana Guv Pardons Plessy of ‘Separate but Equal’ Ruling 129 Years Later

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Plessy was arrested in 1892 after a deliberate act of civil disobedience in Louisiana, refusing to leave a “whites-only” train car.

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