A class apart : a Mexican American civil rights story

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Label

A class apart : a Mexican American civil rights story

Title remainder

a Mexican American civil rights story

Statement of responsibility

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

Title variation

Mexican American civil rights story

Contributor

• Sandoval, Carlos
• Grimberg, Sharon
• PBS Home Video
• Miller, Peter
• Schoenberg, Steven
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
• Olmos, Edward James
• Independent Television Service
• Camino Bluff Productions

Subject

• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
• Trials (Murder) -- Texas | Edna
• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• United States -- Race relations -- 20th century
• Documentary films
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Chicano movement
• Edna (Tex.) -- Race relations -- 20th century
• Television series
• Hernández, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc

Genre

• Television series
• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

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 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

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Allen Moore ; editor, Aaron Vega ; original music, Steven Schoenberg

Dewey number

• 323.119/6872/073
• 323.1168

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English or Spanish dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

• F395.M5
• F395.M5

LC item number

• C53 2009
• C53 2009

PerformerNote

Narrator: Edward James Olmos

Runtime

60

Technique

live action