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Bad law in our nation ruled by laws: Dred Scott (African-American citizenship)

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Naomi

I’ve been writing about a remarkably courageous man who, in 1940, defied a bad law and paid for his defiance for the rest of his life. It’s easy to define a bad law in retrospect, although in the past decade … Continue reading →

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