Actor Tony Plana to speak at Garcia luncheon
Actor Tony Plana believed the battle for Mexican-American civil rights started with Cesar Chavez.
"When you're in your 60s, you don't think you're going to find another hero," Plano said. "I realized how wrong and ignorant I was."
Plana will be the keynote speaker at the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Foundation annual birthday celebration luncheon on Jan. 17, 2017. The celebration raises money for scholarships and tuition assistance through Garcia's foundation which is led by his daughter, Cecilia Garcia Akers.
A&M-Corpus Christi Leads Project to Make Hector P. Garcia Papers Accessible Digitally; Website Now Live
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – An important milestone in the year-long project to improve access to the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers has been achieved with the release of an online exhibit that provides an overview of the life and accomplishments of the Corpus Christi physician and champion of Mexican American civil rights. The exhibit, which went live Thursday, Dec. 1, can be accessed at http://tamuccgarcia.omeka.net/.
In partnership with History Associates Inc., the historical research company selected to assist with processing the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers housed in the Special Collections of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is leading the project that will organize and selectively digitize Garcia’s papers. The website will allow historians across the nation, students doing research papers and the general public to see and more easily find documents that are among the most valuable resources on the Mexican American experience during the last half of the 20th century.
$600K digitization of Hector P. Garcia papers goes live
A year-long digitization project to improve access to the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers went live Thursday.
The papers provide an overview of the life and accomplishments of the Corpus Christi physician and champion of Mexican American civil rights. The exhibit can be accessed here.
Garcia donated his collection of papers and memorabilia to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 1990. They have been housed at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library since. The digitization project, which cost about $600,000, was announced in March. University officials have said the project would have taken about 20 years if it were done in-house. It took about a year to digitize the static images, newspaper clippings and letters, among other components.
