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March 5, 2017 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation Leave a comment
Historic Healing & Reconciliation 160th Annversary Of Dred Scott Decision Monday March 6, 2017
MARYLAND STATE HOUSE ANNAPOLIS, MD – 3/2/2017 — NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE NAACP Anne Arundel County, Maryland Branch P.O. 6210 Annapolis Maryland 21401 Phone: 443-883-5151 www.annearundelcountynaacp.org
A CALL FOR RACIAL HEALING & RECONCILIATION ON THE 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DRED SCOTT DECISION Monday, March 6, 2017
On Monday, March 6, 2017, at 11:30 am, the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, there will be a historic apology made for The Dred Scott Decision at The Robert Brooke Taney statue in front of the Maryland State House. The Descendants of both former Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney and The Dred Scott family are coming together on March 6th for two reasons. First, to reconfirm the reconciliation of the Scotts and Taneys, with accompanying apology and forgiveness. Second, to speak against the removal of the Roger Brooke Taney statue Maryland State Capitol Grounds. Instead, they see an opportunity for reconciliation via the erection of statues of Dred Scott and Frederick Douglass to stand in a position of dialogue with Roger Brooke Taney, along with an educational display on the Dred Scott decision and its aftermath. And, they will help raise the funds for the Dred Scott statue. The Scotts and Taneys believe that Americans should learn from their history, not bury their history.
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http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017
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160th Anniversary of The Dred Scott Decision
The events scheduled in Annapolis, MD for Monday, March 6, on the 160th Anniversary of the Dred Scott Decision presents hope for generations to come.
Click any of the links below to view fast-growing coverage of this momentous event! In total this was covered in over 200 newspapers across the nation as well as the UK and Hawaii. Not all links may be active at this time.
http://www.snjtoday.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017
http://www.livewirereporter.com/story/104292/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.trentonchronicle.com/story/115817/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.pressreleaserocket.net/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017/521625/
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http://www.wfmj.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017
http://www.wktv.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017
http://www.usandcanadareport.com/story/116465/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://video.wtxl.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017
http://www.marylandnewsdesk.com/story/121078/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
https://dredscottlives.org/author/theyhadrights/http://www.michigannewsupdates.com/story/121051/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.mainenewsreporter.com/story/117246/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.phoenixnewsdesk.com/story/114479/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.getnews.info/595501/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.eastcoastsentinel.com/story/105656/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.southcarolina-magazine.com/story/113913/historic-healing-reconciliation-l-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-l-monday-march-6-2017.html
http://www.kfmbfm.com/story/34647475/historic-healing-reconciliation-160th-annversary-of-dred-scott-decision-monday-march-6-2017http://minnlawyer.com/2017/02/23/dred-scott-descendant-preserves-history/
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February 26, 2017 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation Leave a comment
Annapolis, MD Reconciliation Event
Contact: Tracey Wagner
traceywagner@justiceunited.org
The modern-day families of Dred Scott and Roger Brooke Taney were brought together by a work of art.
In May, 2016, the renowned Actors Studio in New York City produced the premier of A Man of His Time, a one act play centered on an emotional meeting of the descendants of Scott and Taney set in today's time. The playwright is Kate Taney Billingsley, an actor and member of the Actors Studio. The Actors Studio invited Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott and Charlie Taney, the great-great-great nephew of Roger Brooke Taney to come to New York to participate in a talk-back session with the audience after the play. Jackson lives in Missouri, Taney in Connecticut.
After meeting in New York, Lynne Jackson and Charlie Taney formed a working relationship. Jackson says; "Only Divine Providence could have set up the Scott and Taney descendant's first meeting around an amazing play written by a Taney about Scott and Taney descendants meeting for the first time! I had hoped to meet and draw them out over time to build a relationship through the Foundation's work and they actually contacted me. It was a highlight for me personally and for the Foundation's 10th anniversary."
Jackson is the founder and president of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation in St. Louis and needed help with a strategic plan. Taney consults with non-profits and offered to work pro bono with Jackson on this project. After successfully completing the strategic plan, Jackson invited Taney to Dred Scott Presents Sons & Daughters of Reconciliation, a December 2016 conference in St. Louis hosted by the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. At this event the Taney and Scott families participated in a public reconciliation. Taney recognized the harm caused to African Americans by the infamous Dred Scott decision authored by Roger Brooke Taney, and formally apologized for the Taney family to the Scott family. In turn, the Scott family formally forgave the Taney family. The result is a new foundation of trust, and a commitment to work together on the reconciliation of black and white America. Charlie Taney says, "Working with Lynne Jackson and the Scott family on reconciliation has been an important and deeply moving experience. "
Another work of art, the statue of Roger Brooke Taney in Annapolis, is bringing the Scott's and Taney's together again. On March 6, 2017, the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, they will be at the Taney statue in front of the Maryland State House. They are coming together on March 6th for two reasons. First, to reconfirm the reconciliation of the Scott's and Taney's, with accompanying apology and forgiveness. Second, to speak against the removal of the Taney statue. Instead, they see an opportunity for reconciliation via the erection of a statue of Dred Scott to stand side-by-side with Roger Brooke Taney, along with an educational display on the Dred Scott decision and its aftermath. And, they will help raise the funds for the Dred Scott statue. The Scott's and Taney's believe that Americans should learn from their history, not bury their history.
On the morning of March 6th, a reading of A Man of His Time will be performed.
As President Obama said in his remarks at Reverend Pickney's funeral after the 2015 Charleston massacre; "Justice grows out of our recognition of each other".
http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/A-family-ghost-an-infamous-decision-7468146.php#photo-10065056
Photo: Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
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Dred Scott Day of Reconciliation
December 16, 2016 Dred Scott Heritage Foundation Leave a comment
Descendants of those involved in Dred Scott case gather for daylong event.
by Eileen P. Duggan
The Dred Scott slavery legal case resulted in much division and drama — including the Civil War — but a local foundation has been working for a decade to heal the animosities between the people affected by this and other historical divisions.The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation held its first Reconciliation Conference Dec. 3 at the Frontenac Hilton, bringing together descendants of Dred and Harriet Scott, their former owners, the Supreme Court Justice involved in the case and even descendants of President Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis.
"For more than a decade we have had the concept to meet and find common ground with other descendants of history makers, especially those surrounding the Dred Scott Decision," said Lynne Jackson, who founded the organization in 2007 with her husband, Brian. "We are grateful that descendants of some of the history makers and many others have come together as the Dred Scott Sons and Daughters of Reconciliation."
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Dred Scott Reconciliation Conference 10th Anniversary
A benefit gala at Frontenac Hilton Hotel in Frontenac, MO
On December 2nd – 3rd, 2016 the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation held its Dred Scott Reconciliation Conference at the Frontenac Hilton Hotel's Clayton Room. This celebration and conference marked its 10th Anniversary.
Photo source: B. Webster for Blacktie-Missouri
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Reconciliation Forum
6th Annual Dred Scott Reconciliation Forum
Marshfield, MO
Thomas Jefferson's 9th generation grandson, Shannon Lanier, joined Lynne as they reviewed some of the 10 years of reconciliation activities. Among the guest at the 11th annual Cherry Blossom Festival was a living DAUGHTER Ira, Gray Jordan, of a Civil War Veteran. That's right….. 91 years old, her father had her when he was 82 and she reminisced about her father's days in the civil war before his death when she was almost 9 years old.
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https://shanephipps.com/2016/01/19/thomas-jefferson-perplexing-paradoxical-patriarch-or-aint-that-america/
https://shanephipps.com/2017/02/04/dealing-with-demons-at-monticello/
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National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave their highest award, the Medal of Honor to Dred Scott's great-great granddaughter at their regional Conference in St. Charles, MO.. Lynne Jackson accepted the award stating that she was more thrilled at the giving than the receiving and was happy to receive it in the spirit of reconciliation that the DAR afforded in bestowing this honor. Mrs. Joan Koechig of the St. Charles Chapter Nominated her and State Regent, Morgan Lake, presented the medal and certificate with President General, Lynn Forney Young.
Source: http://www.dar.org/
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