This is a half day bus tour, lunch is optional with the group (at your expense) immediately after. Registration is limited so sign up early.
Happy to work with the St. Louis Racial Reconciliation Network on this Fall tour.
Film Producer Father Gerry Kleba and Film Director Tony West are the proud recipients of TEN Film Festival Awards! Those of us who are honored to have participated were all at the premier at the Hi-Pointe Theatre on July 27, 2025! Also, at the Atlanta Film Festival, the movie won BEST DOCUMENTARY.
A Black History Tour of St. Louis was inspired by and starred Fr. Gerry Kleba, whose appreciation for civil rights caused him to share the historic places of St. Louis and his role in it with many people, including Archbishop Rozanski.
The cast includes: Fr. Gerald Kleba, Fr. Vincent Nyman, Jobyna Foster, Lynne Jackson, Vivian Gibson. Also in the photo is our friend Stephanie Bliss, Director of the Field House Museum which provided a space for the Dred Scott story filming in 2024 while the Old Courthouse was still closed for renovation.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. for the 14th Annual Dred Scott Reconciliation Forum – Two iconic freedom fighters’ descendants will be presenting “Two Historic Roads to Freedom” – Dr. Bryan Moore (Nat Turner’s great-great grandson) and Lynne Jackson (Dred Scott’s great-great granddaughter) will share the inside stories and answer puzzling questions about their ancestors who were neighbors in Southampton, VA. Peeling back the complex layers of their ancestor’s stories that marked our history for perpetuity and what they are doing today in response to reconciling the hurts – Marshfield Assembly of God (1538 W. Washington, Marshfield, Missouri.)
After being closed for 5 years, the Old Courthouse in St. Louis will celebrate its long-awaited Grand Reopening on Saturday, May 3 at 10:00 a.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Along with totally revised galleries on the first floor and an expanded and beautifully attired new book store and gift shop, there is now an elevator to the second floor.
The building is now telling more of the stories of the history of the cases, uses, purpose and construction of the edifice.
Mock trails will continue to be held on the first floor’s new courtroom as well as in the refurbished original courtrooms upstairs.
Dred and Harriet Scott have a new gallery dedicated to the legacy of the impact of their story.
Special guests will join the occasion that day.
Cbabi Bayoc is the designer of the festival’s theme.
Across from the Scott’s room is the Pathways to Freedom gallery that explores African-American life in St. Louis, etc.
The festival will take place in Kiener Plaza until 3 p.m. The courthouse will be open for visitors throughout the day until its closings at 5 pm. The public is invited.
Gateway Arch Park Foundation – Old Court Grand Reopening
Lynne M. Jackson will be the plenary speaker on Monday, April 14th at the U.S. Magistrate Judges’ National Workshop – April 14-16, 2025, Hilton Ballpark, St. Louis Missouri. Lynne M. Jackson will be the plenary speaker on Monday, April 14th. This event is not open to the public.
In collaboration with the historic Sumner High School whose 150th anniversary is THIS YEAR (1875 – 2025), we are promoting the theatre production, Dream Girls. The production is free of charge and open to the public.
The Civil War Roundtable of D.C. and President Lincoln’s Cottage have partnered to welcome Lynne Jackson, President and Founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and the great, great granddaughter of Dred Scott.
Mrs. Jackson will give a presentation on Dred and Harriet Scott’s
11-year legal battle for freedom and the work of the foundation to promote commemoration, education and reconciliation in today’s fractured environment.
Black and white youth from Indianapolis, Indiana will attend panel discussion in St. Louis regarding civil rights issues.
This is a presentation by friend of DSHF, JNPA board member and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Law Firm Partner, Ben Clark, whose father wrote the Man of the Year article on Dr. King for Time Magazine. Location: Kirkwood Performing Arts Center. This live event is free.
