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.

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Lynne Jackson, the great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, photographed at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis in front of a statue of her ancestors. (Missouri Lawyers Media) ST. LOUIS – ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rendering of the new memorial to Dred Scott that the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is raising funds to erect in Calvary Cemetery The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation now has a rendering of the new ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The new marker at the grave of Dred Scott, photographed on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, at Calvary Cemetery, will be officially ...

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 ...

Earlier this week Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore instructed Alabama probate judges to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling that Alabama had to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, ...

President Biden signed a bill on Tuesday that removes the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the infamous Dred Scott decision, from the Capitol Building. The bill, which ...

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