I was among a group of scholars marking the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment’s adoption under the auspices of the National Constitution Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Here you can see me, along with Allen Guelzo, Kurt Lash, and Darrell Miller, talking with Jeff Rosen about the how we got to the 14th Amendment as a nation — in my story by no small part through the advocacy of free black activists.