While the Civil War was won by the Union, much of our knowledge and understanding of the Reconstruction reflects attitudes that the Jim Crow South wished to promote. The new Netflix documentary series Amend, seeks to re-examine our knowledge of that period through the lens of the all important 14th amendment which codified who was to be considered a Citizen, and afforded the hope of a more just society all.
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