Eligio “Kika” de la Garza; The Forgotten Civil Rights Advocate of the Mexican American Generation

Concisely stated, it posits that Eligio “Kika” de la Garza is a significant Mexican American political and civil rights figure and a leader within the Mexican American Generation, one who has gone almost completely unnoticed by scholars despite being one of its greatest contributors and with a record of legislative advocacy that certainly warrants inclusion into the historiography.