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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.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

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

Subject:

Hernández, Pete--Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder)--Edna.--Edna.
Mexican Americans--History--Texas--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--History--United States--History--20th century.
Chicano movement.
Edna (Tex.)--Race relations--20th century.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
Documentary films.
Television series.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

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.

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Documentary. Title from container. Narrated by Edward James Olmos. 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.

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.

ISBN:

9780793670406
0793670403

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317411909

UPC:

841887010412

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)