Title:
A class apart [videorecording] : 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.
Author:
Grimberg, Sharon.
Sandoval, Carlos.
Miller, Peter.
Olmos, Edward James.
Schoenberg, Steven.
Camino Bluff Productions.
Independent Television Service.
Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
PBS Home Video.
Publication Information:
[New York] : PBS Home Video, c2009.
Call Number:
F395 .M5 C53 2009
Abstract:
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 ten 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.
Added Uniform Title:
American experience (Television program)
Edition:
Widescreen.
ISBN:
9780793670406
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Documentary.
Title from container.
Originally broadcast as part of the American experience television series.
Special features: "Making of" featurette with filmmaker, interviews, behind the scenes footage, and photos; a slideshow of photographer Russell Lee's iconic images of Mexican American life in the 1940's; bonus scenes; materials for educators.
Added Title:
GWC 3830.
Personal Subject:
Reading Level:
Not rated.
Subject:
