Homer Plessy was seven-eighths White and one-eighth Black — pejoratively referred to as an “octoroon” in the 19th century. Plessy came of age during the ... the Separate Car Act, which ...

"I knew then as soon as I saw it that it was turn-of-the-century or older. It was the oldest car I'd seen in Cheyenne at that time." Pannell never forgot the little home that he knew held a link ...