The Dred Scott decision denied Black citizenship and deepened slavery’s hold on America

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Supreme Court strengthened racist Dred Scott decision in Slaughterhouse Cases

Exactly 151 years ago on April 14, 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Slaughterhouse Cases decision strengthened the premise of the notorious 1857 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case. As you might ...
Las Vegas Sun

Dred Scott decision can’t nullify Harris’ eligibility

I believe in embracing our history. Even when it’s discriminatory I believe we should learn from history, remember it and teach from it. Our history happened. Slavery happened. Japanese incarceration ...
The Atlantic

Dred Scott — A Century After

Editor’s Note: A professor of law at Yale University, Fred Rodell’s latest book, is Nine Men, a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court. A RESPONSIBLE if somewhat sectionally slanted journal was ...
The Sun Chronicle

Larry Ruark: Dred Scott and Dobbs

March 6 was the anniversary of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the Constitution excluded Blacks (equated with slaves and their ...
The Grio

No, the 1857 Dred Scott case does not make Kamala Harris ineligible for president

“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 ...