Dred Scott

In a civil rights case called Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857, the Court ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States.

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Was it just a coincidence, and perhaps the gas station owner just happened to have the name Dred Scott, like the slave suing for his freedom in the infamous happened before, although it may be a stage name.)

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The culmination of this was in what is known as the Dred Scott decision.

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A famous law case, called the Dred Scott case, lately decided by the

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Helen Nicolay 1910

This was called the Dred Scott decision, and did much to irritate

Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873

Runyan, according to news accounts, replied "Dred Scott," referring to the 1857 decision that upheld slavery.

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The negro's name was "Dred Scott," which name now designates the decision finally given in that case.

House Divided Speech (Performance by Fritz Klein) 1858

The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in 1857 temporarily interrupted the tradition, ruling that African-Americans were not and could not ever become citizens and "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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In our most celebrated Supreme Court decisions, we've seen an expansion of freedom -- Brown v. the Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Griswold v. Connecticut; and in the most infamous decisions, restrictions on our freedom -- Dred Scott, Plessy v. Fergusson, and Korematsu.

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The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in 1857 temporarily interrupted the tradition, ruling that African-Americans were not and could not ever become citizens and "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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