Dred and Harriet Scott’s great-great granddaughter Lynne Jackson (center) and her father John Madison (left), Scott’s great-grandson, attend a reception March 1 at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, where their ancestors sued for their freedom from slavery in 1847. With them at a display honoring Dred and Harriet Scott (seen in the print on the wall) are (from left) John Baugh, Ph.D., the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences; David T. Konig, Ph.D., professor of history and of African & African American Studies and director of the Legal Studies program, all in Arts & Sciences, and professor in the School of Law; and Christopher A. Bracey, J.D., associate professor of law and of African & African American Studies. The reception was part of WUSTL’s “The Dred Scott Case and Its Legacy: Race, Law and the Struggle for Equality,” a national symposium commemorating the sesquicentennial of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 decision, which denied the Scotts their freedom.