A class apart, a Mexican American civil rights story, a co-production of Camino Bluff Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) for American experience ; American experience is a production of WGBH Boston ; senior producer, Sharon Grimberg ; written by Carlos Sandoval ; produced and directed by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller
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A class apart, a Mexican American civil rights story, a co-production of Camino Bluff Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) for American experience ; American experience is a production of WGBH Boston ; senior producer, Sharon Grimberg ; written by Carlos Sandoval ; produced and directed by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
A class apart
Oclc number
317411909
Responsibility statement
a co-production of Camino Bluff Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) for American experience ; American experience is a production of WGBH Boston ; senior producer, Sharon Grimberg ; written by Carlos Sandoval ; produced and directed by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller
Runtime
60
Sub title
a Mexican American civil rights story
Summary
In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hernández killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites. This film interweaves the story activists lawyers, murderer and victim within the broader history of Latinos in America during a time of change
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Mexican American civil rights story
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Genre
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- Documentary films
- Documentary television programs
- Hernández, Peter, 1978- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Edna (Tex.) -- Race relations -- 20th century
- Hernández, Peter, 1978-
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Edna
- Mexican Americans + Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mexican Americans + Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
- Television series
- United States -- Race relations -- 20th century
- Chicano movement
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor6
- Genre4
- Subject12
- Documentary films
- Documentary television programs
- Hernández, Peter, 1978- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Edna (Tex.) -- Race relations -- 20th century
- Hernández, Peter, 1978-
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Edna
- Mexican Americans + Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mexican Americans + Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
- Television series
- United States -- Race relations -- 20th century
- Chicano movement
- Content1
- Is Derivative Of1
- Mapped to1