Amend: The Fight for America

Limited Series

2021 · 6 episodes · 5h 50m in all · 4.1/10

Episodes

1. 

   1. Citizen

   17 Feb 2021 · 56 min · 4.0/10

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

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   2. Resistance

   17 Feb 2021 · 57 min · 4.0/10

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

3. 

   3. Wait

   17 Feb 2021 · 58 min · 4.0/10

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

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   4. Control

   17 Feb 2021 · 62 min · 4.0/10

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

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   5. Love

   17 Feb 2021 · 57 min · 4.5/10

   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.

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   6. Promise

   17 Feb 2021 · 60 min · 4.0/10

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