Lynne Jackson sometimes struggles to find her great-great-grandfather’s grave. Located in North St. Louis’ sprawling and historic Calvary Cemetery, the headstone is just two and a half feet high. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – A new memorial to be unveiled on Saturday, September 30, at Dred Scott’s grave in the Calvary Cemetery. Lynne M. Jackson, Dred Scott’s great-great-granddaughter, installed the ...

A rendering of the new memorial to Dred Scott that the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is raising funds to erect in Calvary Cemetery The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation now has a rendering of the new ...

Just miles away from the scene of the protests in Ferguson lies the grave of Dred Scott at the Calvary Cemetery on West Florissant Avenue. Born a slave in Virginia, Scott sued in a St. Louis court for ...

Dred Scott, the enslaved man whose case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, is getting a new memorial monument. The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is dedicating the monument in his honor on Saturday at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keynote speaker Lynne M. Jackson, president and founder of The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, presents at RootsTech in Salt Lake ...

ST. LOUIS -- A marble tombstone found at a construction site here once marked the grave of an attorney who represented Dred Scott, a Missouri-born slave whose case for freedom helped push the nation ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The enduring power of injustice affirmed 150 years ago came alive Tuesday in speeches and memorials for Dred and Harriet Scott, ...