In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court ... The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free ...

The site of a historic court decision that fanned the flames of racial injustice leading up to the American Civil War has been restored for only the second time in its history.  Renovations to the Old ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue ... the case and whether Scott was indeed a citizen. The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- a staunch supporter ...

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice ...

For years, enslaved Dred Scott and his family fought for their freedom ... That is, until the Supreme Court's ruling in 1857: Black people were not citizens so they had no right to file lawsuits ...

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 ...