That group was the Comité des Citoyens [koh-mee-tay  day see-toy-ehn].
The group that instigated this legal case eventually stated "In defending the cause of liberty, we   met with defeat but not with ignominy." That group was the Comité des Citoyens [koh-mee-tay  day see-toy-ehn]. The lone dissent to this case, which stated "There is in this country no superior,   dominant, ruling class of citizens", was written by John Marshall Harlan. This case started in  Louisiana when the plaintiff sat in a certain train car, and was overturned in 1954 by the unanimous  decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Name this 1896 case that established the doctrine of  "separate but equal".
The group that instigated this legal case eventually stated "In defending the cause of liberty, we   met with defeat but not with ignominy."
{Plessy v. Ferguson} [accept either underlined name; accept answer in either order]