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Today's Poll!Dred Scott honored at Missouri Capitol ceremony
Descendants of Dred Scott were on hand Wednesday in the House of Representatives in the Missouri Capitol for the unveiling of a bust of Scott that will go into the Hall of Famous Missourians. From left, Sarah Madison and daughter, Alyssa, 5, Dred Scott Madison and Lynne Jackson. Jackson is a great-great-grandchild of Scott, as is Dred Scott Madison. Alyssa’s dad is great-great-great-grandson, but was unable to make the ceremony.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Dred Scott, the former slave who sued for his freedom in a St. Louis court and helped galvanize anti-slavery efforts around the nation in the 19th century, was inducted Wednesday into the Hall of Famous Missourians.
A bust of Scott, who died a year after the landmark Supreme Court decision that bears his name, now will be part of a display in the state Capitol’s third-floor rotunda.
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wow 1 year ago
This is certainly a person deserving to be in the "Hall of Famous Missourian's".....I can't even begin to understand how ^%%$#%^$%&&(^^$&*)( Rush Limbaugh derserves to be in the same company as someone like Dred Scott.
wow 1 year ago
He was a slave only to those who like you felt he deserved such a title or position. I and a few other's know that he was born onto this earth withoput the shackels of man's chattel constarints and in the eye's of God was therefore not placed on this earth to be the property of another! What do I know of Mr. Scott....well FIRST AND FOREMEOST...HE IS A MAN THAT STOOD UP TO BULLIES, MURDER'S, RAPIST, IGNORANT SLAVE MASTER'S, CROOKED POLITICANS, ETC, ETC, ETC. Mr. Scott is and will alway's be a national hero... because he stood up to a cruel system that tried making him property. He was a man that despite the horrible times he lived in, found the strength and knowledge to use the American Judicial system as it was intended to be used. Would a slave do that? He placed his faith in this nation and the law...and even though he was let down by those black robbed cowards sitting on the Supreme Court. Mr. Scott never stopped believing in the integrity that honest, hard working, truth seeking, equality demanding, steadfast defender's of the United States of America fought and died for. Would a slave do that? Graceful;........and anyone else with your similar demented thoughts....In my mind Dred Scott is not and was not ever a slave....and neither were the other MILLIONS of inncoent folk who endured those horrors. They were and are people...YOU GOT ME, Dred Scott and all those other's are PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
eileen10 1 year ago
when a person can,as much as humanly possible, put themselves in someone elses body and mind that is when understanding starts. your right wow. so very,very right.every thing you said was filled with understanding,compassion and an insight that not many posess.
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