Homer Plessy was a 30 years old mixed race ( 1/8 black and 7/8 white) man. He was born on March 17, 1862, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His imployment was a shoe maker. If you where to look at plessy you would be supprised that he was mixed raced. He was very light and to regular people he seemed white. He had typiocal hair every white male had and color and skin tone. This all started back when plessy bought a first-class railroad car seat. When he was about to broad the train he was asked the question “are you a colored man”. Plessy answer with a smple “yes” and proceeded to the WHITE-ONLY car and sat down. Remember I said he was very light and hard to tell he was black. He could of lied, and not got into trouble.
