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How '50s James Dean Movie Dared Show Racism Against Mexican Americans
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/how-50s-james-dean-movie-dared-show-racism-against-mexican-n341501"I think the majority of the American people then didn't realize this was going on in the Southwest," "Children of Giant" director Hector Galán told NBC News. "Everybody was aware of the Jim Crow laws against African Americans and what they had to endure. But those same laws applied to Mexican Americans."
"Children of Giant" premieres April 17 on PBS. It is the season opener for VOCES, Latino Public Broadcasting's arts and culture series on PBS.