Friday, November 12, 2021

Plessy and Ferguson Families Work to Overturn Conviction of Homer Plessy

A joint endeavor between the descendants of both sides of the Plessy v. Ferguson case in Louisiana has supported the appeal of the conviction of Homer Plessy, the man whose arrest for boarding a whites-only train car became the basis for the Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 “separate but equal” ruling.

Even though all of us support hierarchies to some degree, more or less depending largely on our position in a higher or lower group, we can make amends and come together, even it it takes centuries to move forward. 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/581296-louisiana-board-votes-to-send-pardon-for-homer-plessy-man-at-center-of?fbclid=IwAR3LM0CCspy7mQWq4UJOzvvad_Iv_mPXc7MZwWOFp6Pwfj1NTe6fL5MlcHw