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The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, ...
Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else, as to not disparage the Black man whose name it uses.
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies seems to argue in 2024 that Nikki Haley, Vice President Harris and Vivek Ramaswamy aren’t eligible for the White House. From Yvette Walker: ...
No, the 1857 Dred Scott case does not make Kamala Harris ineligible for president “We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up ...
She added, “The Dred Scott case accurately expressed what many people in the country at the time who were slaveholders believed.” In the 1857 case, Dred Scott, a Black man in Missouri, sued ...
Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else, as to not disparage the Black man whose name it uses.
Lynne Jackson, Dred Scott's great-great-granddaughter and president of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, joined Brigham Young's descendants for a dinner in her honor on March 1 at This is the ...
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.
In St. Louis, a descendant of Dred and Harriet Scott, the couple of the famous Dred Scott decision, is shedding light on her family's story.
Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man, along with his wife Harriet, famously sued for their freedom and that of their two daughters in the landmark Dred Scott v.
Dred Scott, an enslaved man who lost his bid for freedom, will be honored with a new memorial monument at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday. In 1846, Scott and his wife, Harriet, filed their ...
A monument to Dred Scott is photographed on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum. Scott was a formerly enslaved man whose case for freedom made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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