US History from 1896 becomes current events in 2022 !

From Lanny Medlin
on https://www.findagrave.com/
Just one month ago, on January 5, 2022, the governor of Louisiana posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the defendant in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court casePlessy 's “separate but equal” led to  Jim Crow laws until the Supreme Court partially overturned Plessy with its 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

https://guides.loc.gov/plessy-ferguson 

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