John Marshall Harlan, Biographies, American Biography, Supreme Court 

"In 1896, the supreme court fixed the grim pattern of race relations in the United States by upholding a Louisiana law requiring all railroads to provide "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." The lone dissent of Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan proved to be a chilling and accurate prediction of things to come: "The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together and the interests of both require that the common government of all not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law. What can more certainly arouse race hatred... than state enactments, which, in fact, proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior and degraded that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens?"

Sixty years later, the court over-turned the "separate but equal" doctrine and knocked out segregation in public education. John Marshall Harlan's lone voice had become the voice of a unanimous court. His dissents in the field of civil liberties now are the law of the land. " - Book cover 

Content:
Foreword by Fred Rodell
Introduction
James Harlan and son
Quiet before the storm
The young giant
Harlan takes his stand
Colonel John Marshall Harlan
Kentucky politics again
War in congress
Man in the middle
Break with the past
Road to the Supreme Court
The constitution is what the judges say it is
Harlan's associates
The civil rights cases
Defender of the fourteenth amendment
i regard this decision as a disaster
Last of the tobacco-spittin' judges
The constitution is color-blind
Rise of the trusts
Teddy Roosevelt and the trusts
Still in the dissenting business
the "liberty" to work ten hours a day
Roar of an angry lion
First of the modern liberal judges
Bibliography
Index