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

Because he looked white. (Apex)

Plessy was a Louisiana French Creole offended party in U. S. Preeminent Court. Ferguson was captured, attempted and indicted in New Orleans of an infringement of Louisiana's racial isolation laws however he bid through Louisiana state courts to Supreme Court and lost

. The subsequent "separate yet equivalent" ruling against him had wide outcomes for social liberties in the United States. The arranging sanctioned state-ordered isolation anyplace in the U. S. inasmuch as the administrations accommodated the two blacks and whites were "equivalent".