Mexican Americans walk out of Hearings

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Film Date
5/2/67
Film Reference Number
KPIX 31174
Description
KPIX Eyewitness News report from May 2nd 1967 featuring scenes from a civil rights commission hearing in which two speakers refer to systemic discrimination against Mexican Americans within U.S. prisons employment and military. These speakers and their supporters in the chambers then walk out as a formal protest against such inequality.
Format
16mm newsfilm