Rutgers Hosts Screening of Documentary Film Chronicling Landmark 14th Amendment Case
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Office of Student Life and Leadership at Rutgers-Newark present a screening of the award-winning film, A Class Apart, a documentary about the landmark 14th amendment U.S. Supreme Court case vindicating Latino civil rights, on Wednesday, October 7, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Dana Room of the John Cotton Dana Library, 185 University Avenue on the Rutgers-Newark campus. The event is free and open to the public.
There will be a reception and post-screening panel discussion following the film with Carlos Sandoval, producer and director of A Class Apart. The film was the recent recipient of the prestigious Imagen Award in the category of best documentary/TV in August, 2009. Panelists include members of the local In 1951 in the town of In the landmark case, defense lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican-Americans were “a class apart†and did not neatly fit into a legal structure that recognized only blacks and whites. As legal skirmishes unfolded, the lawyers emerged as brilliant, dedicated, humorous and at times terribly flawed men. A Class Apart dramatically interweaves the story of its central characters – activists and lawyers, returning veterans and ordinary citizens, murderer and victim – within the broader history of Latinos in The screening of A Class Apart is co-sponsored by the New Jersey Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. Additional National Partners include: Active Voice, the American GI Forum of the For more information please visit the Institute’s website at: ethnicity.rutgers.edu, or contact Marisa Pierson at mpierson@newark.rutgers.edu.
