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Dred Scott v. Sandford

SCOTUS · Teaching/Historical Teaching/Historical SCOTUS
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Case Overview

In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott (a man who had been enslaved) was not a citizen of Missouri or the United States and therefore couldn't even bring a lawsuit in federal court, holding that Black Americans had no rights the white man was bound to respect. The decision was so catastrophically wrong that it took the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment to undo it, and the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause was written specifically to overrule Dred Scott.

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SCOTUS TMR-d57f1a93 Jul 22, 2026

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