The Old Courthouse was the site of several landmark cases, including the Dred Scott case that challenged slavery, and Virginia Minor’s fight for women’s voting rights. RELATED: St. Louisan's ...

This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same ...

This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same ...

She said notables buried at the cemetery include Harriet Robinson Scott, who with her husband Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued for their freedom; Lucy Delany, the author of an 1892 book documenting ...

It effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter their status, were not citizens. Since at least 1898 and the Supreme Court ...

The 14th Amendment’s guarantee that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens was ratified in 1868, a response to the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision ...

Are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they resign. This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved ...