The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision determined that Scott, who lived in a free state, was not entitled to freedom. It also said Blacks were not and never could be U.S. citizens.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

The US Supreme Court building stands in Washington, DC, on October 3, 2022. - The Supreme Court begins their new term today, and is expected to hear cases addressing a number of issues, including ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 1846, slaves Dred and Harriet Scott sued to gain their freedom. The case was tried in St. Louis. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens, and not protected by the Constitution.

Dred Scott is wrong because U.S. citizenship, properly understood, does not turn upon the consent of the polity to citizenship at all but on birth in U.S. territory and obligation to follow U.S. ...

ST. LOUIS — There's a new memorial at Dred Scott's gravesite in St. Louis, built to be a more fitting remembrance of the man who changed U.S. history. Minister Brenda Young, with the Dred Scott ...

As far as the Republican organization’s attempt to evoke the Dred Scott decision in its attempt to delegitimize Harris’ eligibility for president, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a professor emerita ...