Professor Paul Finkelman on Dred Scott
Professor Paul Finkelman on Dred Scott
Albany, NY
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Paul Finkelman of Albany Law School teaches a constitutional law course on historically significant Supreme Court cases. Today’s lecture focuses on the Dred Scott case, which in 1857 decided that people of African descent were not protected by the Constitution and were not American citizens.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 1:15am (ET)