Nora Stewart School / Monta's Chicken and Rib Shack

Historical marker location:

207 N 5th St, Columbia, Missouri

( Marker is on North 5th Street just north of East Ash Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2019

African-American Heritage Trail.

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.