Amend: The Fight for America

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  1. Citizen

  56m

  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

  57m

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

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  3. Wait

  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.

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  4. Control

  62m

  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

  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.

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  6. Promise

  60m

  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

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Bryan Stevenson

Self