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New Orleans, Louisiana was a place of many races and mixed raced people. Interstate train travel was segregated there, called “Louisiana's Separate Car Act.” Many people didn’t think this was fair not only because was it discriminatory, but because there was no way to tell if a person was truly white or black because there were so many mixed people. In 1891 a group of Creole professionals in New Orleans formed the Citizens’ Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law. In 1892, Homer Plessy, a ⅞ white and ⅛ black man, bought a train ticket and took a seat in the “white” car. Plessy was asked to get off the train or move to the “black” car. When he refused, he was arrested. This planned incident was to question the fourteenth

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