Homer Plessy was specifically chosen by the Comité des Citoyens to challenge the law because:
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Correct answer: He was mixed race and appeared white, exposing the law's arbitrariness
Plessy was 'seven-eighths Caucasian,' meaning he appeared white but was classified as Black under Louisiana law. His arrest was a planned act of civil disobedience designed to show that racial categorization was legally and socially inconsistent.
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