How did the committee to test the separate car act choose homer plessy?

The committee to test the Separate Car Act chose Homer Plessy because he was an ideal candidate for their legal challenge due to his mixed-race heritage; he was seven-eighths white and one-eighth Black. This allowed him to legally sit in the "whites-only" section of a train, as he could pass for white. The committee aimed to highlight the absurdity of racial segregation laws by strategically selecting someone who could challenge the law without being overtly Black in appearance. Plessy’s arrest for sitting in the white car provided the basis for the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.