Justice Holmes and the Question of Race
Author | Thomas Halper |
Position | Baruch College & the CUNY Graduate Center |
Pages | 171-200 |
Notwithstanding his youthful dalliance with abolitionism, Holmes’ votes and
opinions in Supreme Court cases involving race reveal a stubborn indierence to
discrimination on a range of issues. Whether this reects a cold personal aloofness,
a preoccupation with life as struggle, a commitment to judicial restraint or merely
an insensitivity pervading the enlightened opinion of the day, his performance will
continue to stain his reputation.
Holmes, Race, Segregation, Giles v. Harris
© 2021 Thomas Halper, published by Sciendo.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
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10 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies (2021)
Portrait of a Justice as a Young Man
Sr., Oration: The Pilgrims of Plymouth in
Id.
See
generally Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The
Subtle Rapture of the Postponed Power
In Search of Holmes
from Within
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