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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved people who initially sought to buy their freedom for $300 from their enslaver's widow. After the widow Irene Emerson rejected the offer, the Scotts took to the ...

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.

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 ...

Associate Justice McLEAN proceeded to express his views in the case of DRED SCOTT VS. SANFORD. After stating the facts relative to the subject, he proceeded to say that the plea as to jurisdiction ...

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.

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 ...