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

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery -- wrote the "majority ...

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 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 ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford ...

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no black of African descent (free or slave) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to ...

Dred and Harriet Scott filed freedom suits in the Old St. Louis Courthouse, fighting to break the chains of slavery. But after an 11-year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that ...