LoginAmerican Experience: A Class Apart - Region 1 DVD
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Call Number: DVD F395 .M5 C53 2009
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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Manufacturer: PBS
Release date: 21 April 2009
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0841887010412 UPC: 084188701041
Release date: 21 April 2009
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0841887010412 UPC: 084188701041
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