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. “And I said out loud ‘Yeah ...

On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s presidency four years later.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who President Biden nominated to the Supreme Court to become the first ever Black female justice, admitted Tuesday that she could not recall the basis for the infamous ...

The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the question of slavery in the United States. Few realize that Scott once lived at Fort Snelling in St. Paul in present-day ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A family member of the chief justice who presided over the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision has apologized to the family of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom. On ...

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...

A full day of festivities on August 12 at the Missouri History Museum will commemorate the day that Dred and Harriet Scott were granted their freedom. “Harriet and Dred Scott are true American heroes, ...

2007-05-12T20:08:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/630/197002-m.jpgA discussion was held on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision ...

Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson Scott in an illustration from the Library of Congress. CATHY WURZER: You know, we started a Minnesota history segment on this show not too long ago and called it ...

On this day in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled all blacks living in the United States — slaves as well as free — could never become citizens. It also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, thereby ...