Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed all too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor protections. Giant trusts are monopolizing entire industries. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to appease the South. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court.Īt first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country is changing. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan’s words that helped end segregation, and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom.īut his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John’s father raised like a son in the same household. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. They say that history is written by the victors. The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
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