“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which ...

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 president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might ...

Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

Descendants of the former Supreme Court justice who supported slavery applauded the change during a City Council meeting.

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

What is your favorite childhood memory? Watching my mother paint beautiful oil on canvas murals and stills. What does Black History Month mean to you? I am honored to carry the name of a ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that Black Americans were not and ...

They will research China's agricultural history; the intersection of immigration, incarceration, and public health in 19th-century New York City; and Caribbean immigrants' use of cricket and reggae to ...

Taney authored the majority opinion in the 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case where Scott sought freedom due to having lived in a free state. Taney wrote that because Scott was Black ...