{"id":49012,"date":"2024-09-12T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=49012"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:48:27","slug":"acc-kicks-off-hispanic-heritage-month-with-symposium-on-mexican-american-civil-rights-attorney-gus-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2024\/09\/12\/acc-kicks-off-hispanic-heritage-month-with-symposium-on-mexican-american-civil-rights-attorney-gus-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Kicks Off Hispanic Heritage Month with Symposium on Mexican American Civil Rights Attorney Gus Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations with a special symposium honoring Mexican American civil rights attorney Gus Garcia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the symposium will delve into Garcia\u2019s life, legal career, and his pivotal role in championing civil rights for Mexican Americans. Gus Garcia is best remembered for his landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Hernandez v. Texas, which established protections against discrimination for Mexican Americans under the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE STORY OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY GUS GARCIA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All events are at ACC Highland Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Celebrate: Noche De Cultura<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, September 12, 6 to 9 p.m.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Uplift: Appeal Day&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, September 13, Noon to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create: Community Workshops\/Platicas&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, September 14, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium kicks off a month of festivities, including panels, cultural events, and artistic showcases. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.austincc.edu\/events\/hispanic-heritage-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/hhm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations with a special symposium honoring Mexican American civil rights attorney Gus Garcia.&nbsp; Sponsored in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the symposium will delve into Garcia\u2019s life, legal career, and his pivotal role in championing civil rights for Mexican Americans. Gus Garcia is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":49013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,43,34,795],"class_list":["post-49012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-to-do-at-acc","tag-hhm","tag-highland-campus","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-mexican-american","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}