John Marshall Harlan
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John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great
Harlan, 1865–1880
Colonel Harlan of the Union Army
The Supreme Court, headed by Melville Fuller, 1898; with Harlan in the front row, second from left
John Marshall Harlan
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race
John Marshall Harlan
…in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the…
Justice Henry Billings Brown, author of the majority opinion in Plessy
An Oklahoma City streetcar terminal's "colored" drinking fountain, 1939
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon