Kate Dillingham, descendant of Justice John Marshall Harlan, the one dissenter against the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, plays Lift Every Voice and Sing to begin a ceremony held by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to posthumously pardon 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
