The 14th Amendment says all those “born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens”.

Dred and Harriet Scott’s lawsuit for freedom, eventually won at the lower court in St. Louis but struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in in an 1857 decision that is considered one of its worst.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Mr. GOOCH, of Massachusetts, made a speech to-day against the Dred Scott decision which is pronounced by Messrs. CORWIN and SCHERCK to be the ablest argument made in the House ...

The Old Courthouse was the site of several landmark cases, including the Dred Scott case that challenged slavery, and Virginia Minor’s fight for women’s voting rights. RELATED: St. Louisan's ...

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, enacted after the Civil War, was aimed at reversing the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision, a ruling that declared Black people, enslaved or ...

I tell folks the greatest thing we should be focusing on, something that Frederick Douglass said when the Dred Scott decision came back. The abolition movement said, “It’s over. There’s ...

"When Dred Scott was handed down, we moved into this period of supremacy," Friedman says. "And so, people reading the decision who disagreed violently with it, engaged in a number of dodges to try ...

Speakers included acclaimed visual artist Cbabi Bayoc, award-winning actress Jenifer Lewis, and Lynne Jackson, great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott. Originally under construction from ...

After Donald Trump won a decisive second term in November, conventional wisdom quickly congealed: #Resistance was dead. There was no Women’s March. The regular weekend protests in D.C. weren’t ...

Lynne Jackson, great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott and founder of The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, cuts the ribbon at the grand reopening of the Old Courthouse, officially ...