This episode explores the lives of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Harry Washington. Their experiences show how dreams of attaining a more equal society inspired immigrants to participate in the American Revolution...

Entrepreneurial ambition inspired both Norman Assing and Louis Pio to immigrate to the United States.... 

As the Supreme Court cases of Chy Lung v. Freeman and Wong Kim Ark v. US illustrate, Chinese fought against the onset of discriminatory laws by hiring lawyers and invoking conditions from the US Constitution...