American Experience: A Class Apart (2009) (DVD)UPC Number: 841887010412
Directors: Carlos Sandoval
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: PBS (Direct)
Release date: April 21, 2009
Run time: 60 minutes
Product Description
In the tiny town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, a field hand named Pete Hernandez murdered his employer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans.
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