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A class apart [digital videodisc] : a Mexican American civil rights story / produced and directed by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller ; written by Carlos Sandoval ; a co-production of Camino Bluff Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) for American experience.

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[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2009]

Hernández, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Edna.

Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century.

Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Chicano movement -- History -- 20th century.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/teachers-resources/class-teachers-guide/ Connect to material related to this title online.

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

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