The governor of Louisiana is set to posthumously pardon the man who was at the center of the Supreme Court's decision in the case.
The descendants of the principals in the case pose for a picture in front of a historical marker. In this photo, Bill Haber.
The Associated Press.
The location of Wednesday's pardon will be the one where Plessy was forcibly dragged from a train in 1892 for violating the state's Separate Car Act by refusing to move from a "whites only" train car to a separate compartment for Black people.
The judge who convicted him and the descendants of him are expected to attend the ceremony at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, according to the Associated Press.
The Louisiana state pardons board voted unanimously in November to recommend a pardon for the man.
The five blocks of the street were renamed in honor of the man in the summer of 2018, and the ceremony will be held in the arts center.
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The local civil rights group organized a campaign to bring attention to the Separate Car Act, which Judge Ferguson later ruled had broken. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling in May 1896, finding that the act was constitutional and did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. The New Orleans district court fined him $25 after he pleaded guilty. The Supreme Court decision paved the way for legal segregation. The landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education was overturned in 1954.
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The first cousin of Homer Plessy told Time that his left eye gave up after Edward made his decision. It felt like I was not standing up. It is strange. He and his great-great granddaughter of Judge Ferguson founded a civil rights nonprofit in 2009. "It's not Ferguson v. Plessy anymore, it's Plessy and Ferguson," he said.
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