Tag Archives: Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott Footprints Bus Tour

October 18, 2024 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation

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

Constitution Day Special

September 18, 2024 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation

166 YEARS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1858
DRED SCOTT DIED ON WHAT IS
CONSTITUTION DAY

In honor of his life and passing, the DSHF created a special commemorative pocket sized constitution booklet in 2023. This handsome keepsake has a black leatherette cover with gold leaf lettering. Because of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, we have the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, often called the Reconstruction Amendments, the Civil Rights Amendments and sometimes called the Dred Scott Amendments.

SHARE THIS IMPORTANT DOCUMENT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, NOT ONLY AS A KEEPSAKE BUT TO SHARE THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF OUR NATIONAL LEGAL DOCUMENT.

READ FOR YOURSELVES WHAT THIS LONGEST ENDURING (237 YEARS OLD) CONSTITUTION HAS TO SAY.

LIMITED TIME OFFER

Purchases made by September 30 will receive free shipping

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Commemoration, Reconciliation

Celebrating the Life of John Lebourgeois

August 18, 2024 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation

In July 2024, we celebrated the life of a dear friend and family member, John LeBourgeois, the great-great-grandson of Charlotte Blow, daughter of Dred Scott’s original owners (Peter and Elizabeth Blow) who left this world on April 11, 2024. He was a member of Dred Scott Presents: Sons and Daughters of Reconciliation and a staunch and devoted supporter of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation along with many of his family members.

John and his wife Mimi, one daughter Anne and a nephew, Ashton, met Lynne Jackson in Southampton, VA at the dedication of the Dred Scott Blow Family Highway marker installed by another Blow descendant, Jeffrey Hines. Because of Facebook, total strangers met whose lives were entwined. The other daughter, Louise, has participated in three major Dred Scott programs in Marshfield, Missouri, St. Louis, and at Calvary Cemetery.

The LeBourgeois family has been as dear to us today as their ancestors were to Dred Scott, helping him and Harriet in their eleven-year battle for freedom. Today the family is engaged in helping us promote the principals and necessities as well as the joys of reconciliation. I spoke at the memorial which was held in John’s favorite spot, Promontory Point Field House on Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, Illinois. John was a man of many disciplines and everyone who attended thought we knew him, until we heard the warm and hilarious stories about his life and career at the memorial. I found out John was an artist. The caricature portrait of John was drawn by Tom Bachtell.

John’s family graciously invited donations to be sent to the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and The Whitney Plantation. Rest in peace dear John and thank you for representing what God’s humanity to man can look like. We will always remember and love you!

Lynne

Announcement, Education, Event, News

Awesome Juneteenth Events 2024

May 18, 2024 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation

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.