Kansas City Call

Historical marker location:

1715 East 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri

( Marker is on 18th Street east of Woodland Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

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.