John Marshall Harlan

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/20/2021
  

  Chattanooga Struggles to Heal the Scars of a Lynching

  by Peter Canellos

  "In a time of mistrust along racial lines, the initiative in Chattanooga is a model for other communities. It demonstrates that agreed-upon facts can be a precursor to recovery."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/7/2021
  

  The Supreme Court Justice Who Made History By Voting No on Racial Segregation

  Peter Canellos's new book examines John Marshall Harlan, whose blistering dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson was on the losing side in 1896 but became a foundational text for civil rights and equal protection activism.