(Lyndon B.

Johnson
Biography)

Lyndon B. Johnson is an American Democratic politician born on August 27, 1908 in Stonewall,
Texas. HIs parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr and Rebekah Baines Johnson had five children,
Johnson of which is the oldest. As a young student, Johnson struggled in school, but managed
to graduate from Johnson City High School in 1924. He later joined in on debates and campus
politics after enrolling at Southwest Texas State Teacher College (today, Texas State
University).
After Johnson graduated, his political career had already fired up: in 1931, Johnson won
an appointment as legislative secretary to Texas Democratic Congressman Richard M. Kleberg
and moved to Washington. D.C. After engaging in his political career for 30 years, Johnson set
his sights on the White House. John F. Kennedy was nominated for president on the first ballot
at the Democratic Convention, realizing that he needed support from Southern Democrats to
win the campaign, Kennedy offered Johnson the vice presidency and Johnson accepted.
JFK/LBJ won the election against Republican candidate Richard Nixon by the smallest of
margins, turning Johnson into the 37th vice president.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
A few hous later, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president. To fulfill Kennedys legacy,
Johnson pushed through congress over the next year, including a tax cut and the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, one of the most effective civil rights law since reconstruction. On top of this,
Johnson appointed minority groups, such as the Latinos, to serve in the government.
In 1964, Johnson ran for the presidency just as his term ended against conservative
Republican Senator Baryy Goldwater of Arizona. Winning with 61% of the vote, Johnson used
his election mandate to wage on poverty in the United States and communism in Southeast
Asia.
Johnson died from a heart attack in Texas on January 22, 1973.
(Lyndon B. Johnson Biography)

(Gustavo C.
Garcia)

Gustavo C. Garcia was born on July 27, 1915 in Laredo, Texas to Alfredo and Maria Teresa
Garcia.
Garcia began his political career when was admitted in the Texas Bar in 1938. and
worked as an assistant for the district attorney John Schook in 1938 and city attorney Victor
Keller in 1941. Garcia assisted in Hernandez vs. Texas, the first case by Mexican Americans to
be heard by the US Supreme Court during World War 2. It was no surprise to Garcia when
Hernandez was found guilty both times the case was heard in court and Texas state court. On
January 11, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren agreed to give Garcia sixteen extra minutes to
present his argument. Rather than focusing on Hernandezs case, Garcia argued that although
Mexicans make up more than 10% of the population in texas, not one person with a Spanish
surname or origin has been in any jury of Texas in the past 25 years. The Supreme Court voted
unanimously in favor of Hernandez. This is what officially considered Hispanic Latino a
separate class from Whites.
(Gustavo C. Garcia. Wikipedia)

(Jose Angel Gutierrez)

Jose Angel Gutierrez, born in Crystal City, Texas in 1944, is an attorney and professor at the
University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. Gutierrez is a founding member of the
Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and past
president/founder of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third party movement.
Gutierrez became politically active as a teenager.
In 1968, Gutierrez along with other members of the Mexican American Youth
Organization, organized walkouts in public school of Edcouch, Elsa, Weslaco, Crystal City and
other towns. There have been estimated to be numbers as low as 17 to a high of 38 walkouts
organized by MAYO. Students protested the school authority in the way they treat Mexican
Americans, and presented them with a list of demands. These walkouts didnt gain wide support
until 1969, during the first and only MAYO conference. By the late 1970s, MAYO was not as
powerful as it used to be as the Chicano movement weakened throughout the Southwest.
(Jose Angel Gutierrez. Wikipedia)
(MEXICAN AMERICAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION)