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Mar. 14, 2022
Justice John Marshall Harlan's vision of America, founded on the concept of equality for all
In "The Great Dissenter," Peter S. Canellos delves into Justice John Marshall Harlan's life experiences and judicial philosophy and probes the sources of Harlan dissents that ran against the grain of his Supreme Court colleagues.
Michael L. Stern
Judge (ret.)
Harvard Law, Boalt Hall
Judge Stern worked at the CRLA Santa Maria office from 1972 to 1975. He is chair of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Historical Committee.
In his dangerous travels across southern states to represent African-Americans, the great civil rights attorney and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall carried a copy of Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the inherently discriminatory "separate but equal" doctri...
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