Homer Plessy

Homer Plessy was a man of Creole decent, who could actually pass off as a white man. There was a law passed that required blacks and whites to sit separately in a bus/train. Homer Plessy decided to sit in the white section to see what would happen. He ended up being asked to move to the black section and he refused. He was arrested, and in court his lawyer defended him by quoting the 14th amendment. What came of this was the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling, which said that blacks and whites were to be "separate but equal" and this drew attention to the hypocritical and contradicting nature of government at that time.