Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Slave's Fight for Freedom
It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when the Supreme Court once ruled that Black Americans could never be citizens. Janice Rogers Brown, former California Supreme Court Justice, examines the case that is universally acknowledged to be the low point in the Supreme Court’s history—and one of the prime causes for the American Civil War.
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