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Chicano movement

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Ignacio M. Garcia Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-98
Abstract

Ignacio M. Garcia is a writer, professor, and activist that has written extensively about the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. These are his papers.

Dates: 1960-1979
Found in: Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi / Ignacio M. Garcia Papers

Santiago Hernandez Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-181
Abstract The Santiago Hernandez Papers consist of a variety of original correspondence and photocopied newspaper clippings central to the attempt to rename the Three Rivers Post Office after Pvt. Felix Z. Longoria Jr. A local resident of Three Rivers, Texas, Longoria was killed in action in the Pacific Theater during World War II. When his body was returned to Three Rivers the local funeral home declined to provide services; ostensibly because Longoria was Mexican-American and it would “upset the...
Dates: 2003-2005
Found in: Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi / Santiago Hernandez Papers