They chose Homer Plessy to defy ... light complexion made his race "not discernible", he said), he was arrested, just as the Citizens Committee had planned. Plessy was found guilty in November ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling, has been recommended for ...