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1948: Hector P. Garcia and the American GI Forum: Source #5: American GI Forum Photographs

1948: Hector P. Garcia and the American GI Forum
Source #5: American GI Forum Photographs
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  1. Source #1: Photograph of Dr. Hector P. Garcia
  2. Source #2: Oral History Interview with Dr. Hector P. Garcia
  3. Source #3: Oral History Interview with Willie Serna
  4. Source #4: Map of AGIF Chapters Nationwide
  5. Source #5: American GI Forum Photographs

5. Photographs of the American GI Forum

The photographs below show AGIF members in action in some of the many causes and campaigns that they championed in Texas and beyond.




Hector P. Garcia in his American GI Forum hat marching with farm workers, carrying flags

Dr. Hector P. Garcia (all the way on the right) joins striking farm workers in their march from Rio Grande City to Austin, Texas in 1966 (Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)


Members of the American GI Forum picket while carrying signs comparing Texas Rangers to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.

Texas AGIF members protesting abuse by the Texas Rangers by picketing Texas Governor John Connally’s speaking appearance at the 1967 gathering of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Laredo, Texas (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries).


A man wearing an American GI Forum hat picketing alongside others carrying signs calling for a boycott of Coors beer

A Colorado GI Forum member picketing the Golden, Colorado-based Coors brewing company, ca. 1970s. In 1966, the Colorado GI Forum had launched what became a national, multi-decade boycott of the beer company for discrimination against Mexican American and African American workers and for support of California grape growers against agricultural workers, among other reasons (Courtesy of Juan Espinosa).


Hector P. Garcia in his American GI Forum hat standing in a crowd of people protesting and carrying signs

Texas AGIF members, including Dr. Hector P. Garcia (with his sister Clotilde), at a protest ca. 1977 demanding justice for Mexican American military veteran José Campos Torres, after Houston police officers beat him to death and dumped his body. (Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi).




SOURCES:

“Dr. Hector P. Garcia at Protest March,” Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers, Collection 5, Box 456, Folder 03. Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. 1966. Accessed June 26, 2024. https://library.tamucc.edu/exhibits/s/garcia/item/179


Pancho Medrano Papers, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "American G.I. Forum Picketers at LULAC Convention, 1967." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1967. Accessed June 26, 2024. https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/10019448


“Dr. Hector P. Garcia at Protest,” Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers, Collection 5, Box 451, Folder 11. Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. 1966. Accessed June 26, 2024. https://library.tamucc.edu/exhibits/s/garcia/item/191


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