The ruling in the Dred Scott case inflamed regional tensions, which burned for another four years before exploding into the Civil War. | HISTORY

This month in #CivilRights history: Dred Scott, an enslaved black man, unsuccessfully petitioned for his freedom before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, the high court affirmed Scott's status as property. | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement