Cushman comes to Bates from the University of Hartford, where she is the Edith Dale Monson Gallery Director and Curator at the Hartford Art School. Our latest in an occasional roundup of quotable ...

Adopted in July 1868, the amendment overturned the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling that held that even free African Americans were not U.S. citizens.

This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same ...

It effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter their status, were not citizens. Since at least 1898 and the Supreme Court ...

It effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter their status, were not citizens. Since at least 1898 and the Supreme Court ...

This clause effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter whether or not they were enslaved, were not citizens.

Are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they resign. This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved ...