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Episodes (6)

Ep 1
Citizen
★4.0
2021-02-17•56m
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.

Ep 2
Resistance
★4.0
2021-02-17•57m
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.

Ep 3
Wait
★4.0
2021-02-17•58m
As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.

Ep 4
Control
★4.0
2021-02-17•62m
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.

Ep 5
Love
★4.5
2021-02-17•57m
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.

Ep 6
Promise
★4.0
2021-02-17•60m
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.