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A Class Apart; The Story of Hernandez v. Texas
A one-hour film on the Hernandez v. Texas court case that went all the way to the Supreme Court will air tonight at 8:00 p.m. CST on PBS. In the case, the Supreme Court decided unanimously that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups merited equal protection under the 14th Amendment. The film additionally details the often ignored plight of Mexican Americans in the Southwest as they struggled with widespread discrimination in the first 100 years after the Mexican-American War.
