Portrait of Captain Héctor P. García during World War ll

ID: 7 ~ Source: Dr. Héctor P. García Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: ca. 1945

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ID: Black and white portrait of a Latino officer wearing a brown uniform with shirt and tie.

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Hector Garcia – Soldier, Medical Doctor, Civil Rights Advocate

"The American GI Forum started with the Felix Longoria case, we had gone into police brutality, lack of representation in juries, lack of representation in draft boards. I knew civil rights [as a Mexican-American]. I knew the problems, I knew where…