I am a Youth Member of the American GI Forum. This organization is one that encourages education for all studetns and it's geared to Hispanic students. AGIF has provided various scholarships for over 20 years to those in need for higher level education.This is a brief explanation on how AGIF derived.
Dr. Hector P.Garcia
Dr. Hector P. Garcia believed in the American dream and lived it. He was a man who passionately quoted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and applied such texts to the outcast minorities of society.He inspired Mexican Americans to educate themselves in democratic principles, then worked to apply those principles to all people through his organization, The American GI Forum.Dr. Hector P. Garcia saw the flagrant deprivation of rights of Mexican Americans and spent his life working to effect positive change.
Pvt. Felix Longoria
Dr. Hector Garcia's efforts impacted this country on a national level more than once. The American GI Forum first became well known in one Texas case that reached the front page of the "New York Times" and the national radio broadcast of Walter Winchell-the Felix Longoria incident in 1949.When the wife of a Mexican American World War II hero was refused the use of a funeral home to wake her deceased husband in Three Rivers, Texas (told by the funeral home director "the whites won't like it"), the teamwork of Dr. Garcia and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson laid Longoria to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. The incident also forged a personal and political relationship between Garcia and Johnson that was especially advantageous for Mexican Americans during LBJ's presidential years.
For more information on AGIF and/or Dr.Garcia, visit
www.amerricangiforum.org
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