Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow talked about Civil Rights Cases (1883). In the group of five consolidated cases, the Supreme C…
17,723 viewsAmelia Newcomb, the great-great-granddaughter of Justice John Marshall Harlan, discussed difficulties in his life. She was interviewed as part of C-SPAN’s Landmark Cases series, this one for…
341 viewsAmelia Newcomb, a great-great-granddaughter of Justice John Marshall Harlan, talked about a San Antonio, Texas, high school named after her ancestor and what it meant to his legacy. Ms. Newc…
395 viewsKate Dillingham, a great-great-granddaughter of Justice John Marshall Harlan, talked about the justice’s African American half-brother, Robert Harlan. Ms. Dillingham was interviewed as part …
742 viewsKate Dillingham and Amelia Newcomb, the great-great-granddaughters of Justice John Marshall Harlan, told their version of a story passed down through the generations of their family. The sto…
751 viewsHistorian Edna Medford talked about abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, including his speech at Lincoln Hall in Wash…
518 viewsHistorian Edna Medford talked about abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Senator Charles Sumner and their work on the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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