Emma Tenayuca Championed Class Struggle and Migrant Rights

Emma Tenayuca Championed Class Struggle and Migrant Rights

Almost a century ago, labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike, facing down bosses, police, and the Klan. Today amid renewed nativist hate, we can learn from her example. Emma Tenayuca in city jail at San Antonio police headquarters, June 29, 1937. (San Antonio Light Photograph Collection / University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections) Emma Tenayuca was still a…