It took nearly 100 years for the USSC to finally, in Brown vs. Board of Education, eliminate the horrible Dred Scott decision of 1857. This despite a couple of Constitutional Amendments in the intervening years that made it clear that segregation was atrocious.
I suggest we simply praise God that we saw this decision in our lifetimes.
i am grateful. didn’t think i’d see it.
fight is just beginning though. it now, really is ON.
The Dred Scott decision was overturned by war and by a constitutional amendment in 1865.
Brown v. Board did not overturn Dred Scott, as the Constitution had been amended 90 years previously to overturn it.
Brown didn’t even overturn Plessy v. Ferguson, it made an EXCEPTION to the general rule that segregation was legal because of expert testimony by “modern psychologists” that segregation IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS was harmful to black children.
Plessy v. Ferguson was rendered irrelevant (not exactly overturned) by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and if you think Congress is not busy right now studying how a statute can overturn a Supreme Court decision, then you don’t know them like I do.