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Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern©Øandez 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 ten 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 discriminiation against Mexican...