The lessons of Dred Scott
By Charles Ogletree and Johanna Wald | Wednesday, April 5, 2007 | The Boston Globe
One hundred fifty years ago, the Dred Scott decision denied blacks – even free blacks – the rights of citizenship as specified in the Constitution, a travesty of justice and a stain on our nation’s history. A look at the history of voting rights since then, by two faculty members at Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute…BS
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