Amend: The Fight for America

E1 · 56m

Citizen

After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.

E2 · 57m

Resistance

After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.

E3 · 58m

Wait

As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.

E4 · 62m

Control

In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.

E5 · 57m

Love

After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.

E6 · 60m

Promise

Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.