Surviving Trump's America #8: The Fourteenth Amendment pt 1

Due process. Equal protection. Strict scrutiny. All of these concepts spring from the 14th Amendment, which is the basis for some of the most important civil rights achievements in the last century. But the amendment has also been a major battleground for America's varied, competing political ideologies, and unsurprisingly, the good guys haven't always won. In this installment of Surviving Trump's America, we delve into the paradoxical history of the 14th Amendment. Part 1 of this 2-part episode examines the history of the 14th Amendment from its passage after the Civil War through the Jim Crow era.