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Announcement, Education, Event, News

Dred Scott Footprints Bus Tour

On November 16, 2024 This fascinating bus tour of the St. Louis area will visit and visually explore many locations and memorials that connect to and honor the person and cause of Dred Scott’s struggle for freedom.  You will be surprised and delighted by the hidden gems around the St. Louis area that exist to recognize the significance of the man and his story.  Lessor known art, sculpture and honors exist all around us; some which you may pass by everyday unaware.


This exciting and surprising tour will be narrated by a Dred Scott descendant. The price of $112.00 includes: free parking at the starting site; modern bus with facilities, day long tour with many surprises, lunch at the iconic Blueberry Hill (lunch on your own), information on national locations where Dred Scott is heralded and honored, games, souvenirs, and photo ops. This fast paced tour has delighted young and old. If you’ve toured with us before come see whats new!

Early Bird Registration of $97 until November 3rd!
Promo Code: EARLYBIRD

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Announcement, Education, Event, News

Awesome Juneteenth Events 2024

May 26, 2024

June 13, 2024

Save the Date!

The North STL County Juneteenth 2024 celebration will include the luncheon The State of Us on June 13th Keynote speaker will be Lynne Jackson, great- great granddaughter of Harriet and Dred Scott. The focus is Freedom Suits and Juneteenth. Mrs. Jackson is founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and a board member of the Freedom Suits Monument Foundation and the Jefferson National Parks Association.

June 18, 2024

The Milly Project

The Freedom Suits Monument Board in association with the St. Louis Law Library will host a Juneteenth program at the Circuit Court Building on Tuesday, June 18th.  The Milly Project is a heroic-turned-tragic, true story about Milly Sawyers, an enslaved Black woman, who filed two freedom suits in St. Louis, MO.

View the video and join our panelists for a discussion of this story brought to light by Ms. Kendra Chappell. For more information and panelists visit:

https://llastl.org/Juneteenth-event-2024

June 21, 2024

2024 NFPW Conference

Join us on Friday, June 21, 2024   

REGISTRATION OPEN 8-pm Clayton Foyer North 8–9 a.m., Welcome and Breakfast Clayton BD 9:15–11 a.m., Keynote Session: “History in the Headlines,” Lynne Jackson, great-great granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, and Dr. Jody Sowell, president of Missouri Historical Society and former assistant professor of journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism.  

NFPW Conference

June 22, 2024

Ste. Geneviève Juneteenth Program

Freedom Suits and local history will be examined by Lynne M. Jackson including her personal connection to the area.  

June 22, 2024 1:30 P.M.
at
Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park 
Welcome Center
66 S. Main Street
Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 

June 27, 2024

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

(THIS PHOTO INCLUDES SCOTT PLESSY FERGUSON AND BROWN DESCENDANTS FROM THE 2019 DREDSCOTT RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE IN ST. LOUIS)
On June 27, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., a presentation for  professional development in collaboration with the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, and William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas.

This event will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS decision and serve as a platform for in-depth teaching and learning of civics and civil rights in the United States of America. The events leading up to Brown include discussions on Dred Scott v Sandford and Plessy v Ferguson.  Descendants will be presenting.
Announcement, Education, Event

RootsTech 2024 Global Genealogy Conference Jackson Keynote

Join Lynne and many others at the Rootstech 2024 Global Genealogy Conference Feb 29-Mar 2, 2020 in Salt Lake City
In-person or Online. 

Meet our Keynote Speakers

Speakers at RootsTech come from around the world and cover a wide range of family history subjects

https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/speakers

Register Now at rootstech.org

Announcement, Commemoration, Education, Reconciliation

New Marker for Harriet Scott

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Harriet Robins Scott is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in St. Louis.  For many years, her location was not known.  Mrs. Etta Daniels had the records and a few people knew but it was not revealed publicly until 2006 when Mrs. Ruth Ann Hager, a certified genealogist was doing research on Harriet and through several attempts concluding with a phone call to Lynne Jackson, she was able to narrow down the many Harriet’s to one, our Harriet at Greenwood.  This happened to occur in 2006, a year prior to the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott Decision in 2007. As Lynne likes to say, “She wasn’t going to miss out  on the party!”

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Harriet Scott Memorial Dedication Gallery

Announcement, Commemoration, Education, Reconciliation

New Monument Celebrating the legacy of Dred Scott

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Lynne Madison Jackson, President and Founder DSHF
Lynda Burgman, Grant Writer and avid supporter

On September 30, 2023  Dred Scott received a new memorial monument.  

It was for the occasion of the 165th anniversary of his death which was September 17, 1858.  As it turns out, that became Constitution Day!

The new monument replaces the wonderful headstone which has been there since 1957 and was donated by Mrs. Harrison of Pennsylvania, a descendant of Scott’s original owners Peter and Elizabeth Blow.

To share his legacy and impact on our nation, his great-great granddaughter, Lynne Madison Jackson and her Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, provided a new monument with the aspects of the Foundation’s goals of Commemoration, Education and Reconciliation noticeably visible.  The new memorial is in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, MO where Scott is among the top most asked for gravesites in the cemetery of over 300,000 persons.

Dred Scott Descendents
Pastor Rafael Green, Louise LeBourgeois, Brenda Young, Dawn Eden Goldstein,
Treasure Shields Redmond, Lynne Madison Jackson, Dred Scott Madison II,
Peggy Lewis LeCompte, Dr. David Konig, Dr. Kimberly Norwood
Dred Scott Board of Directors
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Dred Scott Memorial Monument
Dedication Gallery 1
September 30, 2023

Dred Scott Memorial Monument
Dedication Gallery 2
September 30, 2023

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Dred Scott Memorial Monument Dedication

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The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation will dedicate a new memorial monument on Dred Scott’s gravesite, Saturday, September 30, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., at St. Louis’s Calvary Cemetery,

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