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On Feb. 17, 1929: The League of United Latin American Citizens is formed in Corpus Christi, Texas

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Desegregated hundreds of public places throughout Texas, such as barber shops, beauty shops, swimming pools, restrooms, water drinking fountains, public dining places, and hotels.

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Provided the organization and financial base for the Salvatierra vs. Del Rio Independent School District case, the first class action lawsuit against segregated "Mexican Schools" in Texas.

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Pressured the U.S. Census Bureau to reclassify persons of Mexican descent from the designation of "Mexican" to "White". The 1940 census count reflected the change.

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Played a major role in filing discrimination cases for the Federal Employment Practices Commission, the first federal civil rights agency.

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Successfully sued to integrate the Orange County school system, that had been segregated on the grounds that Mexican children were “more poorly clothed and mentally inferior to white children”.

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In Santa Ana, California, filed the "Mendez vs. Westminster Lawsuit" which ended 100 years of segregation in California's public schools and becomes a key precedent for Brown vs. Board of Education.

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LULAC Council 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas, and its Veterans Committee, facilitated the formation of the "American G.I. Forum" organization for Mexican American veterans.

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LULAC attorneys filed the "Delgado vs. Bastrop I.S.D. Lawsuit" which ended the segregation of Mexican American children in Texas.

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LULAC and the American G.I. Forum filed fifteen school desegregation lawsuits in Texas.

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LULAC attorneys took the "Hernandez vs. The State of Texas Lawsuit Case" to the Supreme Court, winning the right for Mexican Americans to serve on juries.

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LULAC Council 60 in Houston, Texas, worked to transform the Little School of the 400 to "Project Head Start" under the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.

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On November 21, John F. Kennedy visited with LULAC at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas the day before he was assassinated. This was the first time that a sitting president had appeared at a LULAC event.

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LULAC and the American G.I. Forum joined forces to organize SER - Jobs for Progress, now the largest and the most successful work power program in the nation.

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LULAC filed the "Cisneros vs. Corpus School District Lawsuit" which defines Hispanic Americans as a minority for the first time.