A class apart

Resource Information

The work A class apart represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A class apart

Statement of responsibility

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 ; [American experience is a production of WGBH Boston] ; senior producer [for the series], Sharon Grimberg

Title variation

Mexican American civil rights story

Contributor

• Miller, Peter, 1961-
• Camino Bluff Productions
• PBS Home Video
• Moore, Allen
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Olmos, Edward James
• Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
• Vega, Aaron
• Sandoval, Carlos, (Producer and director)
• Independent Television Service
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Grimberg, Sharon
• Schoenberg, Steven

Cinematographer

• Moore, Allen

Composer

• Schoenberg, Steven

Film director

• Miller, Peter, 1961-

Film editor

• Vega, Aaron

Film producer

• Sandoval, Carlos, (Producer and director)
• Miller, Peter, 1961-

Narrator

• Olmos, Edward James

Screenwriter

• Sandoval, Carlos, (Producer and director)

Television producer

• Grimberg, Sharon

Subject

• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Documentary television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Edna (Tex.) -- Race relations -- 20th century
• Hernández, Pete
• Hernández, Pete -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Historical television programs
• Historical television programs
• History
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Nonfiction television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Race relations
• Spanish dialog
• Spanish subtitles
• Television series
• Television series
• Texas
• Texas -- Edna
• Trials (Murder)
• Trials (Murder) -- Texas | Edna
• Trials, litigation, etc
• United States
• United States -- Race relations -- 20th century
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
• 1900-1999
• Chicano movement
• Chicano movement -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• History
• Nonfiction television programs
• Television series
• Trials, litigation, etc
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Historical television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Documentary films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

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 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

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Allen Moore ; editor, Aaron Vega ; original music, Steven Schoenberg

Dewey number

• 323.119/6872/073
• 323.1168

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English or Spanish dialogue subtitled in English; optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

F395.M5

LC item number

C53 2009

PerformerNote

Narrated by Edward James Olmos

Runtime

60

Technique

live action