The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, October 1st, 2005
It was nearly a quarter-century after the Civil War before a Democrat was named to the U.S. Supreme Court. This was Lucius Q.C. Lamar, who wrote the Mississippi order of secession from the Union in 1861. He was narrowly confirmed to the Court in 1888. In his five years on the Supreme Court, Lamar moved the justices toward recognizing the separate but equal doctrine.
The late William Hubbs Rehnquist was one of only a number of the Supreme Court to move the Court toward controlling, and in some cases restricting, the status and life chances of African Americans. But no one accused the late chie...
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