They chose Homer Plessy to defy the segregationists in an ... Only one justice dissented, John Harlan, who contended that the decision "will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal ...

The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero," published by Simon & Schuster. Harlan served on the Supreme Court from 1877 until his death in 1911, and he stood alone in opposing the ...

This concept, declared in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), claimed that racial ... In calling the Constitution color-blind, Harlan affirmed one of our most fundamental principles: that all men are ...