but Homer Plessy, the mixed-race Creole man who famously refused to sit in the “colored” section of a train and whose name became synonymous with the ruling, is finally on his way to being pardoned.

They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an ... could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality ...

Confusion about the legality of segregation continued until it was challenged by Homer Plessy. In 1892, in a planned act of civil disobedience, Plessy boarded a train in New Orleans and sat in the ...