Limited Series
Episodes
S1 · E1 · 17 Feb 2021 · 56 min
Citizen
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
S1 · E2 · 17 Feb 2021 · 57 min
Resistance
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
S1 · E3 · 17 Feb 2021 · 58 min
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.
S1 · E4 · 17 Feb 2021 · 62 min
Control
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
S1 · E5 · 17 Feb 2021 · 57 min
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.
S1 · E6 · 17 Feb 2021 · 60 min
Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
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