Tenayuca Photographs
Emma Tenayuca |
A happy Emma |
Francisco Indelecio Madero in Juárez, Mexico, with his wife,
c. 1922 |
Governor "Ma" Ferguson, first elected female governor in the United States, 1925-27 and 1933-35, c. 1924 |
United Ku Klux Klan Meeting in Vidor, Texas, August 20, 1971 |
Emma on the steps of City Hall, leading a rally against worker injustices |
Samuel Gompers, c. 1924 |
Ed Finck, owner of Finck Cigar Company in the 1930s and 1940s |
Women shelling pecans by hand at Southern Pecan Shelling Company during the pecan strike, February 13, 1938 |
Policeman Pérez arresting a man during the pecan shellers' strike for blocking the sidewalk, February 11, 1938 |
María del Refugio Ozuna, age 13, and Mrs. San Juan Gonzales, age 77, shelling pecans at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company, January 17, 1938 |
Pecan strikers near the National Pecan Shelling Company, striking for wage increases, July 31, 1934 |
Emma Tenayuca at 21, national committeewoman for the Workers Alliance of America, in jail for disturbing the peace in connection with the WPA sit-in, June 30, 1937 |
City police called out to evict members of the Workers Alliance, April 27, 1937 |
Members of the Workers Alliance stage a "sit-down" strike at City Hall, protesting the city's refusal to grant a permit to parade, April 27, 1939. |
E. Gonzales (left) and Pete Torres (right) breaking pecans with a lever-operated cracker at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company, January 17, 1938 |
Emma with husband Homer Brooks (left) and Elizabeth Benson (right) attempting to hold a Communist Party meeting before a riot broke out, August 25,1939 |
Emma Tenayuca organizing the Workers Alliance of America members in protest of beatings by the Border Patrol, February 24, 1937 |
Emma (second from left) with other women in the Women's League for Peace and Freedom preparing tortillas to feed 1,000 striking pecan workers, February 9, 1938 |
Emma with friends arriving at a train station after attending a Communist Party meeting, June 8, 1939 |
The wedding of Emma Tenayuca and Homer Brooks, c. 1938 |
Emma, at 19, waiting to see Mayor Charles K. Quin about better facilities to distribute relief supplies, July 16, 1936 |
Emma, an official of the Workers Alliance, at City Jail being "booked" in connection with the pecan shellers' strike, January 31, 1938 |
Amanda Cuevas with her history fair project, "Emma Tenayuca: Leading the Labor Movement." |
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