The U.S. Supreme Court precisely 164 years ago on March 6, 1857 in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case declared that Blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Kansas ...
According to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court’s worst. The Civil War was waiting in the wings. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it a “self-inflicted wound.” ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Martha Jones and Christopher Bracey discussed the background of the Dred Scott case including the atmosphere in the United States ...
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“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary Frances ...
Last month, a New Yorker article prompted discussion about the teaching of Dred Scott v. Sandford and other cases concerning slavery and racial subjugation in Constitutional Law classes. The ...
President Biden signed a bill on Tuesday that removes the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the infamous Dred Scott decision, from the Capitol Building. The bill, which ...
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