Bobbi-Jeanne Misick U.S. News Homer Plessy has been pardoned for arrest that led to 'separate but equal' ruling Bobbi-Jeanne Misick The state of Louisiana has granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy, the Creole man who refused to leave a "whites only" train car in 1892. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Listen • 2:44