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23 feb 2009 · A team of unknown Mexican American lawyers took the case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican...
A Class Apart is a new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Carlos Sandoval (Farmingville) and Peter Miller (Sacco and Vanzetti, Passin' It On). The first major film to bring to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them, A Class Apart is built around the ...
Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves a broader story of the civil rights movement with the heroic post-WWII str...
6 mag 2009 · A Class Apart, by Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller, is built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all...
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- 21,9K
- ActiveVoice1
With Gloria Villa Cadena, Norma Cantú, Ramiro Casso, James DeAnda. From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.
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- Documentary
- Peter Miller, Carlos Sandoval
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A Class Apart: With Edvin Endre, Valter Skarsgård, Aliette Opheim, Kevin Vaz. When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence.
5 feb 2009 · A Class Apart tells the little known story of how a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers take their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court and win the first decision to...
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- 11,3K
- Latino Public Broadcasting
