Project MUSE - Felix Longoria's Wake.
The Felix Longoria scrapbook, maintained by the Texas Attorney General's Office, documents the 1949 controversy of a Three Rivers funeral home's refusal to hold the services for Private First Class Felix Longoria, a soldier of Mexican descent from Texas who was killed on a volunteer mission in the Philippines during World War II. The incident attracted considerable publicity, leading to.
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The more research that Dr. Patrick Carroll compiled for his second book, “Felix Longoria’s Wake; Bereavement, Racism and the Rise of Mexican American Activism,” the more he felt honored to write about this historical incident. Originally, the text was to be written by Political Science Professor Frederick A. Cervantes, but after Cervantes’ death in 1986, Civil Rights Activist Hector P.
The Longoria Incident Hector P. Garcia: A Texas Legend The Longoria Incident Army Pvt. Felix Longoria, a native of the small South Texas town of Three Rivers whose remains were returned from Luzon, in the Philippines, for burial four years after World War II ended Mr. Longoria’s widow, Beatriz, had been denied use of a hometown funeral chapel because the Longorias were Mexican-American.
The Longoria Affair (El caso Longoria) premieres on Independent Lens on Tuesday, November 9 at 10 PM (check local listings). We sat down with filmmaker John J. Valadez to talk about his.
FELIX LONGORIA AFFAIR.The controversy surrounding the burial of Felix Longoria provided a successful case for the American G. I. Forum, a civil rights organization for Mexican Americans, to fight racial discrimination with political pressure.In 1948 the remains of Private Felix Longoria of Three Rivers, Texas, were recovered from the Philippines, where he had been killed on a volunteer mission.
Felix Longoria Digital History ID 3704. Date: Annotation: In 1948, an incident occurred in Texas that became a defining symbol of the discrimination that Mexican Americans faced and energized the Mexican American struggle against second-class citizenship. The episode was later commemorated in song. Private Felix Longoria of Three Rivers, Texas, had been killed in the Philippines at the end of.