Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. ... Peter Blow's sons, childhood friends of Scott, had helped pay Scott's legal fees through the years.

Dred Scott, the enslaved man whose case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, ... It said that he fought for his freedom and that his friend [Henry] Taylor Blow freed him.

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy. NewsHour ...

McCarthy Building Companies Assistant Superintendent Dustin Roberts power washes brickwork surrounding the covered statue of the Dred and Harriet Scott outside the Old Courthouse Thursday, June 7 ...

Dred Scott was not the only “piece of property” that he fought to win freedom for during his lengthy legal battles that ended unsuccessfully at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis. Scott had a ...

This weekend the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation will raise money for its efforts at reconciliation and commemoration with a dinner that attempts to offer both. The foundation will host “Dred ...

Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, is working to keep his legacy alive. Jackson is also the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. A 9-foot-tall monument stands in ...

ST. LOUIS — There's a new memorial at Dred Scott's gravesite in St. Louis, built to be a more fitting remembrance of the man who changed U.S. history. Minister Brenda Young, with the Dred Scott ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, ...

In 1850, Dred and Harriet won their case for freedom, but an appeal reversed the decision in 1852, making Scott and his family slaves again. Scott was finally freed, but not through a court case.

One, Walter Scott (Count Stovall), is a descendant of Dred Scott, and the other, Jim Taney (John L. Payne), is a great-great nephew of Roger B. Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who, in 1857 ...