Our Thanks to all our major donors and the hundreds of smaller ones that give to keep the Dr. Hectors message alive.!

1. CITGO Refining

2. KIII TV 3

3. KRIS TV

4. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi CHRISTUS Spohn Health System

5. H-E-B

6. Mr. Jim Akers and Mrs. Cecilia Garcia Akers

7. Port of Corpus Christi 

8. Ms. Barbara Canales & Mr. Doug Allison

9. Black Chamber of Commerce

10. Dr. Osbert Blow & Dr. Nelly Garcia Blow

11. Frost Bank

12. Hicks Automotive Group / Ms. Gloria Hicks

13. IBC Bank

14. Kleberg Bank

15. Mattress Firm South Texas 

16. The Honorable State Representative, Abel Herrero

17. The Honorable State Senator, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa

18. Turner | Ramirez Architects

19. Texas A&M University-Kingsville

20. Valero

21. American Federation of Teachers

22. American GI Forum of South Texas, Dr. Hector P. Garcia Founding Chapter

23. Canales & Simonson, PC

24. CC Regional Transportation Authority

25. Chemours

26. Del Mar College Foundation

27. Del Mar College Mexican American Studies and the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education DMC Chapter

28. Dream Team Realtor/Shirley Gallagher

29. Larry Elizondo

30. Leadership Empowerment Group, Dr. Barbara Baggerly-Hinojosa

31. Linebarger Attorneys at Law

32. N.A.A.C.P. Corpus Christi

33. Incarnate Word Academy

34. The Honorable State Representative, Todd Hunter

35. LULAC Council 1

36. Mark Roach

I think this is the most important thing that has happened to the Mexican-American people -that we now feel that we belong to this country. That this is truly our "country" and we may keep our pride and our dignity. That we are Mexican in origin and in blood, but we also now have the feeling that we are accepted as Americans also!

Below is a transcript of a 1969 interview with David G. McComb. This interview is part of the LBJ Library which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration

Transcript

INTERVIEWEE: HECTOR GARCIA
INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. MC COMB
July 9, 1969

MCCOMB: Let me identify the tape first of all. This is an interview with Dr. Hector Garcia. I'm in his office in Corpus Christi, Texas, at 1315 Bright Street. The date is July 9, 1969, and my name is David McComb.

Now you gave me this copy of the GI Forum program of the 21^st Annual Founders' Day Banquet which has a capsule biography of you here, which I will place into the record so that anybody using this tape will have the opportunity to use this. There are several points about this that I'd like to ask you about. In the first place it says you were born in Mexico, and I'd like to know when you came to the United States.

GARCIA:  Well, Mr. McComb, I came to the United States when I was only about three and a half to four years old. I was not quite four and I was a little bit over three, so I would say approximately four years old.