"Carroll provides abundant evidence of the importance of the
Longoria incident for Mexican Americans, for a rising Lyndon
Johnson, for Texas politics, and, indirectly, for U.S. society. His
insights ...have the potential of appealing to both historians and
general readers, particularly those interested in Mexican American
and/or Texas history." -- Julie Leininger Pycior, author of Lyndon
Johnson and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power
Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star,
a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's
badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the
only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused
to hold a wake for the slain soldier because "the whites would not
like it." Almost overnight, this act of discrimination became a
defining moment in the rise of Mexican American activism. It
launched Dr. He ctor P. Garci a and his newly formed American G.I.
Forum into the vanguard of the Mexican civil rights movement, while
simultaneously endangering and advancing the career of Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson, who arranged for Longoria's burial with full
military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
In this book, Patrick Carroll provides the first fully
researched account of the Longoria controversy and its far-reaching
consequences. Drawing on extensive documentary evidence and
interviews with many key figures, including Dr. Garci a and Mrs.
Longoria, Carroll convincingly explains why the Longoria incident,
though less severe than other acts of discrimination against
Mexican Americans, ignited the activism of a whole range of
interest groups from Argentina toMinneapolis. By putting Longoria's
wake in a national and international context, he also clarifies why
it became such a flash point for conflicting understandings of
bereavement, nationalism, reason, and emotion between two powerful
cultures-- Mexicanidad and Americanism.
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