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A Class Apart: Directed by Peter Miller, Carlos Sandoval. With Gloria Villa Cadena, Norma Cantú, Ramiro Casso, James DeAnda. From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case.
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- Documentary
- Peter Miller, Carlos Sandoval
- 49
Feb 23, 2009 · In 1951 in the town of Edna, Texas, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered his employer after exchanging words at a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable small-town murder emerged...
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.
- (795)
- 2021-08-22
- Crime, Drama
- 42
A Class Apart. Rent A Class Apart on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. After World War II, Mexican Americans fight to dismantle discrimination.
- Documentary
Nov 19, 2022 · 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...
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...
- 36 sec
- 11.9K
- Latino Public Broadcasting
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We see the lawyers forge a daring legal strategy that called their own racial identities into question by arguing that Mexican Americans were “a class apart” who did not neatly fit into a legal structure that only recognized blacks and whites.
