Ratified in 1868, this amendment was specifically designed to overturn the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision, which had denied citizenship rights to Black Americans. The amendment’s ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, ... • Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision ...

The decision ruled that enslaved people aren’t protected citizens. According to archives.gov: “In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in ...

It was New England’s own Atlantic Monthly, protesting early in 1858 the Dred Scott decision. The Dred Scott case of 1857 is the most famous — or notorious — in all of our judicial history.

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. Share full article. April 11, 1857. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 11, 1857, Page 11 Buy Reprints.

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 ...

What emerged is the thrilling play “American Rot,” about the modern-day fictional meeting of descendants on both sides of the Dred Scott decision in a diner off the New Jersey Turnpike.

Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else, as to not disparage the Black man whose name it uses.

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred Scott, an enslaved Black man, sued for his freedom alongside his wife Harriet in St Louis Circuit Court in 1846.

Her opinion conjured the jurisprudence of the Dred Scott era when it warned that the court’s new decision creates a “two-tiered scheme” in which someone’s citizenship status depends on ...

If you don’t remember your U.S. history, this decision ruled that enslaved people aren’t protected citizens. According to archives.gov: “In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and ...