http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/class/
The untold story of how Mexican Americans helped forge the civil rights evolution in America.
I saw a preview of this movie and it is fantastic. It tells of a little known Supreme Court case involving the right of Latinos to have a jury of their peers defined as something other than an "all white" jury at a time when Mexican Americans were defined as "white" but treated as another class alltogether. It tells of the historic creative lawyering that made the argument that established equal protection 14th Amendment protections for Mexican Americans and all Latinos. It is a great American story of brave Mexican American lawyers- fighting for their community and the Constitutional principle that all people are created equal in this great land.
DON'T MISS THIS SPECIAL. You didn't learn about this case in law school.
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