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Louis D. Brandeis School of Law: Harlan's Great Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
An article from the University of Louisville about Justice John Harlan, who courageously cast the sole dissenting vote in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, which approved of the principles of separate but equal.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: John Marshall Harlan

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features John Marshall Harlan, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal. His best...