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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.
Education, Event

Additional Programs for Black History Month

Polsienilli Law Firm
(February 6, 2024)

National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) STL
(February 15, 2024)

St. Louis County Parks Fight for Freedom
(February 17, 2024)

United States Postal Inspection Service
(February 26, 2024)

Announcement, Award, Event, Recognition

Spirit of Justice Award Announcement

We’re proud to announce Ms. Jackson as one of the 2024 honorees on the 150th anniversary of the STL Bar Foundation.

For more information and to register click the link below:

https://www.bamsl.org/pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=275721&evSubAction=listAll&utm_campaign=legalpulse&utm_source=membercentralpublications&utm_medium=email&utm_content=january-9-2024

For more information on the honoree click the link below:

St. Louis Bar Foundation’s Gala, on February 17, 2024 will honor Lynne Jackson, The Spirit of Justice Award Recipient
Announcement, Educate, Event

Black History Month Fight for Freedom Program with St. Louis County Parks

St. Louis County FIGHT OF FREEDOM SYMPOSIUM at the North County Recreation Complex.

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, Donate

GIVING TUESDAY – Donors Like You Are the Answer to the Question

We are most thankful for each and everyone who has joined us in our mission this year in person and in heart!

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Dear Friends,

Increase your influence on the next generation by joining us this year for the annual event, Giving Tuesday.

Our world is changing at a rapid pace. The work of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is committed to remembering the past (Commemoration),

telling this and the next generation the facts (Education),

and modeling restored relationships that lead to a more peaceful and unified community (Reconciliation).

Along with many educational programs and speaker opportunities, new reveals and grateful recognitions, it will prove to be another extraordinary year….. AND with friends like you, we will succeed!

This Giving Tuesday, we would like to give to anyone who donates $100 or more, our new Special Edition Cover Dred Scott Pocket Constitution in commemoration of the 165th anniversary of Dred’s death in 1857 on September 17th, (Constitution Day)!

If you have donated in the past, we hope you will continue your gracious giving.

If this is your first opportunity to participate in Giving Tuesday, we invite you to be a part of uplifting this sincere work and accept our heartfelt thanks!

* Donate from this site
* Donate via check made to DSHF – send to:
DSHF P O Box 705, Florissant, MO 63032-0705

Thank you for standing with us!

Lynne M. Jackson
President and Founder
“All things are possible, only believe!”