Heather Cox Richardson and 250 to 250: Fourteenth Amendment, Narrated by Sherrilyn Ifill
Dr. Sherrilyn Ifill is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, expert, and scholar. Ifill is the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the founder and director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University School of Law. Ifill shows us the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment, which established that anyone born in the United States was automatically a citizen.
After the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became part of the Constitution (1868).
- People born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
- States must follow the Constitution.
- States must treat people fairly.
- States must follow the law.
- States must protect people's rights.
- Congress can make laws to protect these rights.
- The Fourteenth Amendment helps protect freedom and equality.
- Today, the Fourteenth Amendment is an important part of the U.S. Constitution.
POP Interview and Civics Quiz:
- USCIS Part 2:08. What is your country of birth?
- USCIS 100:12. / 128:13. What is the “rule of law”?
- USCIS 128:97. What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?
Family Fun:
- 14th Amendment Center: Resources
- ACLU of Illinois: ACLU Activity Book
- iCivics: Defining Citizenship - Teaching the Fourteenth Amendment
- Center for Civic Education: The 14th Amendment
- LOC: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History
- National Archives: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
- National Civil War Museum: The Civil War Amendments: The 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship
- NCC: What is the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment?
- NCC: How did the 14th Amendment and the process of incorporation transform the Bill of Rights?
- NMAAHC: Reconstructing Citizenship
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