Homer Plessy deliberately sat in a railway compartment reserved for white passengers and was arrested. The organized test challenged Louisiana’s Separate Car Act. The campaign targeted segregation as a legal institution, rather than treating discrimination only as an individual conductor’s prejudice.
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Plessy’s planned challenge brought segregation into court. Strategic litigation can contest an institution, even when judges ultimately uphold it.
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