Harlan

Harlan, 2 associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, grandfather and grandson. John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911) served as a Supreme Court justice from 1877 to 1911. An independent, he is best known for his 1896 dissenting opinion that Jim Crow laws, which established the principle of “separate but equal” racial segregation, in fact deprived black citizens of equal protection of the law. John Marshall Harlan (1899–1971) was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955 and served until 1971. He had served as assistant U.S. attorney, chief counsel to the N.Y. State Crime Commission, and member of the U.S. Court of Appeals.

See also: Supreme Court of the United States.