The documentary is about the 14th Amendment, and the 14th Amendment is the one the documentary claims that it's actually the most important amendment that Americans don't really think about. It is more concentrated on the first and the Second Amendment, but it's the one that guarantees equal protections under the law for everyone who is living every person who's living in the United States and every person born in the United States is a citizen of the United States. It talks about how this whole process came to be, they talk about before the Civil War. Or things that led up to that. It focuses a great deal on Frederick Douglass, and then it talks about the Reconstruction. And then it talks about Jim Crow laws. Most of the series is focused on the struggle for recognition of African Americans, but then it does do one episode about women's rights, one episode about LGBTQ rights and then one episode about immigrant rights. I have really conflicted feelings about this documentary because I think people who should watch it aren't going to watch it and the people who do watch it or have watched probably already agree with its tenants and the people who don't agree with the tenants or its thesis won't watch it anyway, so they won't be convinced.
Review of Amend: The Fight for America
