Homer Plessy, of 'separate but equal' ruling, pardoned for riding whites-only train in 1892
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHomer Plessy's name was cleared Wednesday more than a century after his ejection from a whites-only...
Louisiana governor posthumously pardons Homer Plessy from infamous 'separate but equal' Supreme...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLouisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy on Wednesday. Plessy v....
Commentary: Let’s keep the judiciary independent
The Repository via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI have a great, consuming, concern for what is happening in the U.S. to our country’s governance. Our founding fathers contemplated a tripartite...
Governor to pardon Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
Associated Press via AOL· 2 years agoLouisiana’s governor planned to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century...
Man whose arrest led to ‘separate but equal’ is pardoned
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLouisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for...
Louisiana governor to pardon Homer Plessy 130 years after arrest
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLouisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) on Wednesday will issue a pardon for civil rights activist Homer...
Tennessee Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Separate Gay And Straight Marriages
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLawmakers in Tennessee are weighing a bill that would create a separate bureaucratic lane for men...
Success Academy subject of $64 million racism lawsuit
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 7 months agoJerald Times believes the charter school system fired him for decrying a “separate but equal”...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1957 Tennessee visit sparked a movement - and rankled the FBI
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHe had a dream. But years before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood gazing into the sea of onlookers...
America has become a more unjust nation | Opinion
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDuring a speech at Howard University in 1965, then-president Lyndon Johnson made the following statement: "You do not take a person who, for years, has...