American Experience: Season 21, Episode 4 - ProjectFreeTV

21 - 4: A Class Apart

Story of a 1951 murder committed by a Chicano laborer, that brought into question the legal status of Hispanics in the United States. The case of Hernandez vs. the state of Texas was a landmark case in 1954, which through a unanimous ruling, declared that Mexican Americans were protected under the 14th Amendment.