Garcia in a Corpus Christi elementary school classroom one evening in March. 1948. the GI Forum ultimately spread across the United States and became a leading civil rights organization. World War II was very much a watershed in opening up new opportunities for Texas Mexicans. But civil rights between 1945 and the late 1950s did not come to Mexican Americans automatically. Many housing developments. restaurants. movies. swimming pools. and even hospitals were considered offlimits to MexicanAmericans. Police and other law enforcement agencies. such as the Texas Rangers and the Border Patrol. all too often reminded Tejanos of their secondclass citizenship through disparagement or intimidation. Employment opportunities diminished quickly. Politically.
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