This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

"Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a ...

The notorious Dred Scott decision held that Blacks were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., led the effort in the House to remove the Taney bust.

The Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) is relevant today. The justices decided the states had the right to legalize slavery; thus, guaranteeing the constitutional right of slave owners in the ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...