The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Scholastic Gold)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 1, 2011) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0439668212 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0439668217 Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 – 12 years Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 950L Grade level ‏ […]

Homer Plessy, Black man behind ‘separate but equal’ ruling, has been pardoned

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century. The state Board of Pardons in November recommended the pardon […]