Why Martin Luther King had the US Constitution on his side | Adam Smith

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From the Civil Rights movement to the modern efforts to legalize gay marriage, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution has been central to many of the most important issues in American history. UCL historian Adam Smith takes us through its significance. | Read along while listening at our Medium: bit.ly/2aEpNZE | Narrated by Adam Smith and Vidish Athavale | Music by Sergey Cheremisinov and Kai Engel | Adam is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at UCL and a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 4. An expert on the nineteenth century United States, his latest book is ?'The Stormy Present: Conservatism and American Politics in an Age of Revolution, 1848-1877', shortly to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.