New Orleans, LA, UNITED STATES
Louisiana governor to pardon plaintiff in landmark Supreme Court racial segregation case
Descendants of Homer Plessy, Keith Plessy, Stephen Plessy, Caylee Plessy, 4, and her mother Rasheedah Plessy, watch as Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs a pardon for Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case which upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine that allowed for decades of segregationist laws against Black people, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kathleen Flynn