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Episode 934: Saint Motel

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Homer Plessy, a Civil Rights Activist

The state of louisiana has posthumously pardoned a man by the name of homer plessy. In 18 92, he went into what was marked a white's only train car and ended up getting arrested. That protest culminated then just a few years later, in 18 96, with plessy versus ferguson,. It established white's only spaces and publiccommodations such as transportation, hotels and schools. And finally, now, in two thousand 21, the governor has offered him a posthumous pardon for happened in his family is his descendants were on hand to claim that.

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