S01E01 Citizen
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
Amend: The Fight for America
S01E06: Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
Overview
Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
Episodes
S01E02 Resistance
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
S01E03 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.
S01E04 Control
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
S01E05 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.
S01E06 Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
Cast
Will Smith
Self - Host
Bryan Stevenson
Self
