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Facts

Date	October 15, 1883
Context	Jim Crow law

Topics

African Americans Reconstruction Supreme Court of the United States civil rights Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment racial segregation Civil Rights Act of 1875 Nürnberg trials O.J. Simpson trial Brown v. Board of Education Roe v. Wade Dred Scott decision Plessy v. Ferguson Marbury v. Madison Scopes Trial Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia v. Heller

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John Marshall Harlan

John Marshall Harlan

United States jurist [1833-1911]

Joseph P. Bradley

Joseph P. Bradley

United States jurist

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