Known as the Great Dissenter, Justice John M. Harlan (the elder Harlan) wrote his famous dissent from the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), along with two other important dissents on 14th Amendment racial cases, The Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Berea College v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1908) that stand out as commentary on race that was well ahead of its time among political elites. Although these opinions carried no force of law, they remain a very important part of African-American legal history and African-American history more broadly. This paper examines the impact that Justice Harlan's minority opinions had on the discourse on race and race relations in the North and the South surrounding the decisions. To measure that impact I examine articles newspapers and other publications with a broad mainstream audience (e.g. New York Times), local mainstream newspapers in Northern and Southern cities (e.g. Boston Globe) and newspapers and other periodicals produced by and intended specifically for a Black audience. This study will add an important view of the Supreme Court's influence on matters of race and law that extends beyond the well-studied impacts of the Court majority decisions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]