Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/02/local/la-me-scotus-scandals-20110402
The high court’s decision in Dred Scott vs. Sandford in 1857 held that the descendants of slaves weren’t entitled to U.S. citizenship or the protections of the Constitution…. “It was a deeply racist opinion that goes far out of its way to warmly embrace the institution of slavery,” said Daniel Farber, a UC Berkeley law professor who said the decision arguably led to the Civil War and hundreds of thousands of deaths.