in an obituary of the late Chief-Justice TANEY, states that SCOTT, by the decision of the ... the Louisiana Purchase was slave, consequently, DRED, at Fort Snelling, being in the limit of that ...

In the annals of bad Supreme Court decisions, one stands head and shoulders above the rest: Dred Scott v. Sanford, the ruling that African Americans could never become citizens of the United States.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

A descendant of the couple who sued in the Dred Scott decision spoke to attendees at a Black history event in St. Louis about her family's lawsuit for their freedom. A descendant of Dred and ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming. It's an invitation to rewrite constitutional text and history in ...

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary ...

Dred Scott now has a “worst decision” counterpart for historians to consider. Steve Beckett has practiced law in Champaign-Urbana since 1973 and is the retired director of trial advocacy at ...

the Dred Scott decision, which was decided in 1857 - the impact of that decision took a few years to really settle in. It served as the foundation for the Civil War. Unfortunately, I believe we've ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It was 1995 when Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, heard a prompting from God. "You should study Dred Scott," Jackson recalled hearing.

The name Dred Scott often elicits varied reactions from people. "'Isn't that that guy who, uh...' —and then they'll say something crazy," said Lynn Jackson. "'Wasn't he a lawyer? Oh, I thought I ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.