The effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which found that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and therefore could not file suit in federal court, will be the subject of a one-act play scheduled for various times this month at The Actors Studio in Manhattan.
The play, one of four one-act productions that focus on the subject of community, will feature a conversation between fictional descendants of Dred Scott, a former slave who took his fight for freedom to the courts, and Roger Taney, who was chief justice when the Supreme Court handed down its Scott ruling.
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