Keith Plessy, descendant of Mr. Homer A Plessy, embraces Kate Dillingham, descendant of Justice John Marshall Harlan, the one dissenter against the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards held a ceremony to posthumously pardon 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
