EBLRLA co-sponsors special screening of A Class Apart
Join the EBLRLA, the American Constitution Society and other Latina/o civil rights organizations for a prescreening of the new documentary about Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), the landmark case that extended constitutional equal protection to Mexican Americans.
Thursday February 12, 2009
* 6:00pm Reception at Chevy’s Fresh Mex, 2 Embarcadero Center, SF
* 6:30pm Theater doors open
* Landmark Theatres, Embarcadero Center Cinema, One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level, SF
* 7:00pm Film begins
* 8:00pm Discussion panel
Introductory remarks and the discussion panel will feature eminent Latina/o judges, professors and lawyers including:
- the Honorable Maria P. Rivera, Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Four;
- Miguel Mendez, Adelberto H. Sweet Professor, Stanford Law School
- the Honorable Lorenzo Arredondo, Judge, Lake Circuit Court and co-author of “El Chicano y the Constitution: The Legacy of Hernandez v. Texas and Grand Jury Discrimination;
- Ignacio M. Garcia, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western & Latino History, Brigham Young University and author of White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination and the Supreme Court;
- Ian F. Haney López, Professor of Law and Executive Committee Member, Center for Social Justice, Berkeley Law, and author of Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice and White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race; and
- Donato Tapia, Co-Chair, Oral History Project Committee, Hispanic National Bar Association.
Join us! Tickets cost $10 and are available online or in person by check only.
And if you know a student or community member who would like to attend but cannot afford the $10 ticket cost, have them contact the EBLRLA president, who along with EBLRLA member Luis Montes has offered to sponsor up to thirteen (13) free tickets.