Thirty-six University of Wisconsin-Madison students stepped off a bus in front of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Post Office on Tuesday, ready for a history lesson, South Texas-style.
As participants in a kind of traveling classroom, the students were in Corpus Christi to learn about Dr. Hector P. Garcia, civil rights leader and founder of the American GI Forum, for a college course called “The Santa Fe Trail: In Search of the Multiracial West.”