'''John Marshall Harlan''' (the first) (1833-1911) was an Associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] from 1877–1911. Born into a privileged slaveowning family, Harlan himself briefly owned slaves but later became famous for dissenting from the "separate but equal" racial doctrine once established in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896). | '''John Marshall Harlan''' (the first) (1833-1911) was an Associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] from 1877–1911. Born into a privileged slaveowning family, Harlan himself briefly owned slaves but later became famous for dissenting from the "separate but equal" racial doctrine once established in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896). |