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Press Release: Historical Documentary, A Class Apart. Today people around the country will gather to watch A Class Apart on PBS’s “American Experience” February 23, 2009 For more information contact: As LULAC celebrates its 80th anniversary, National President Rosa Rosales encourages local LULAC councils throughout the country to host screenings of the historical documentary, A Class Apart. A Class Apart describes the struggle of Mexican Americans to dismantle the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them in Texas. The film outlines the pivotal national grassroots organizing role of LULAC councils from across the country, which raised small contributions to support their Latino attorneys for the Hernandez vs. Texas case. Today people around the country will gather to watch A Class Apart on PBS’s “American Experience” (check local listings). In living rooms and auditoriums, in dorm rooms and cultural centers, they’ll meet the group of Mexican American attorneys who changed history in 1954. Community screening events will bring to light this little known story, A Class Apart, and will help inform a new civil rights movement reignited by the challenges Latinos face today.
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