1964 Press Photo John Marshall Harlan Supreme Ct. - RRV22365
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John Marshall Harlan Appointed to Supreme Court.
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 " October 14, 1911) was a Kentucky lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which, respectively, struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld Southern segregation statutes. In Pace v. Alabama (1883) he supported opinion that anti-miscegenation laws are constitutional. Wikipedia
