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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of ...

Dred Scott and Harriet Scott wood engravings after photographs by John H. Fitzgibbon, St. Louis, Mo. (Wikimedia) “Our word isn’t racism. It’s relationship.” Those are the words of Lynne Jackson, the ...

A full day of festivities on August 12 at the Missouri History Museum will commemorate the day that Dred and Harriet Scott were granted their freedom. “Harriet and Dred Scott are true American heroes, ...

A statue recognizing the major historic role played by Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, will be unveiled on Friday, June 8 at the Old Courthouse, the site where the couple petitioned in 1846 for ...

Your donation fuels local reporting and heats a home through the Warmth Support Program. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis in 1858, the year after the court decision that bears his name. Wikimedia ...

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 ...

The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the question of slavery in the United States. Few realize that Scott once lived at Fort Snelling in St. Paul in present-day ...

U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Justice Clarence Thomas, in his most recent concurring opinion, again raises the issue of whether “substantive due process” ...

“They can do same thing that Abraham Lincoln did about the Dred Scott decision of 1857,” Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, said, speaking of what conservatives might do about Obergefell ...