It was immensely significant for black America that the last major
public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over
global economics and trade. More than forty thousand people came to
Seattle to oppose the policies...
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01 January 2000
In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a
petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of
the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks
could never be granted equal...
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