The Dred Scott Case: The Civil Rights Movement

INTRODUCTION:

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.” While Rosa Parks became known nationwide as “the mother of the freedom movement” when she refused to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white passenger in Alabama ,in 1955. Although when she said that i want to be free that’s what all african american wanted. American society was rocked by waves of social and political protest. Black people engaging in massive civil disobedience served notice to the nation and the world that they would no longer tolerate the abuses of American racism. The Civil rights Movement heralded a new era in the Black American struggle for equality . By the time of the American Revolution

The decision was one of the fourteen cases which was called the worst Supreme Court decision ever rendered and was later overturned. The Dred Scott Decision was a key case regarding the issue of slavery in March 1857. Where people don’t share the same privileges as today the court decided that black people weren’t considered as non- citizens they were slaves therefore without citizenship they have no right and they are unable to request for their freedom. In Scotts v. Sandford case an African American man who was born into slavery, wanted what all slaves would have wanted, their freedom. They were mistreated, neglected, and treated not as humans, but as

The positive changes it brought to voting and civil rights continue to be felt throughout the United States and much of the world until now . Although this was a struggle for the civil right activist they fought for the black quilty on hundreds of different “battlefields” throughout the United States. One of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement chose the tactic of nonviolence as a tool to get his voice heard across the nation was Martin Luther king .jr. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a key role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United State. Bayard Rustin was a leading civil rights activist who organized the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famed “I Have a Dream”