Independent Lens | The Longoria Affair - Video Extra | PBS
Duration: 05:05
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Independent Lens #1204
Broadcast Date: Nov. 9, 2010
In 1940s Three Rivers, segregation extended from town to cemetery.
In Texas after World War II, a funeral home refuses to care for a dead Mexican American soldier's body "because the whites wouldn't like it," sparking nationwide outrage and helping to launch a civil rights movement.
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