Keith Plessy, descendant of Mr. Homer A Plessy, and his wife Marietta Plessy walk to a train behind the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed the pardon of Homer Plessy, during 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
