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He also advised President Jimmy Carter several times in the 1970s. He finished high school in 1932 from a segregated school. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, LULAC and AGIF worked to ensure this ruling applied to Mexican-American students in Texas. However, the Kennedy administration did not prioritize AGIF's civil rights goals.
Dr. García is credited with helping the Democratic party get 85 percent of the Hispanic vote in that close election. He also spoke out against school segregation and discrimination in classrooms. Here he poses with fellow interns at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Practicing Medicine
After World War II, Dr.
Garcia established a medical practice in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he provided affordable, quality care to immigrants, veterans, and the poor. Beauty parlors and barbershops followed in the 1960s. García was one of the first important leaders in the Hispanic civil rights movement. Though the move from Mexico to Texas forced them to give up their teaching careers, Jose and Faustina Garcia instilled the importance of education in their children from a young age.
His last major project was to improve living conditions in the colonias (poor communities) in the Rio Grande Valley along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Death
Dr. Héctor P. García passed away on July 26, 1996, in Corpus Christi, Texas, at the age of 82. He was one of the few Mexican American students admitted to the University of Texas at Galveston’s medical school in the 1930s.
The couple fell in love and married in 1945. His job was to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries. Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Correspondence, 1950
File — BLIBR-0016: Series Series I; Series Series II; Series Series V, Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series I
Dr.
Hector P. Garcia Digital Exhibit
On March 26, 1948, he held a meeting to discuss the problems faced by Mexican-American veterans.
Hector P. Garcia Papers, Collection 5, Box 36, Folder 62.