Homer Plessy, a Creole of color man, "a term used to refer to black persons in New Orleans who traced some of their ancestors to the French, Spanish, and Caribbean settlers of Louisiana before it became part of the United States," deliberately sat in the "white" car of the East Louisiana Railroad and was jailed for disobeying the Separate Car Act of Louisiana, which legalized segregation in common carriers. His lawyers argued that this violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Plessy lost the case with a seven to one vote, rendering the act constitutional. The ruling set the doctrine of "separate but equal" but will eventually be overturned by the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.