Emma Tenayuca
"La Pasionaria de Texas"
Resources available at the San Antonio Central
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"Emma Tenayuca is a name still whispered on the West Side of San Antonio, especially among those who lived through the 1930s. While still in her early twenties, she was the charismatic leader of a labor movement that shook San Antonio, both because it affected the city’s largest industry at the time—pecan shelling—and because it marked the first sign of political liberation of the city’s Mexican American populace from the bossism that had controlled it for decades."
-- Geoffrey Rips in "Living history: Emma Tenayuca tells her story"
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Hardy, Gayle J. American Women Civil Rights Activists: Bio-bibliographies of 68
Leaders, 1825-1992. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
REFERENCE 323.09227 HARDY
Meier, Matt S. Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987.
New York: Greenwood, 1988.
LATINO 920 MEIER
Meier, Matt S. and Feliciano Rivera. Dictionary of Mexican American History.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981.
LATINO 973.04687 MEIER
Telgen, Diane, and Jim Kamp, eds. Notable Hispanic American Women. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1993.
LATINO 920.72089 NOTABLE
Zophy, Angela Howard. Handbook of American Women’s History. New York:
Garland, 1990.
REFERENCE 305.4 HANDBOOK
ARTICLES AND SHORT WORKS ABOUT EMMA TENAYUCA
AND THE SAN ANTONIO PECAN SHELLERS
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. "Women and the Labor Movement." In Women of the
Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939. College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, 1984, p. 130-15.
LATINO 305.40976 BLACKWELDER
Bowser, David. "A Tribute to Emma Tenayuca." In City of Mystery and
Romance: 15 True Stories from San Antonio’s Past. San Antonio, TX: D.
Bowser, 1993, p. 13-16.
LATINO 976.4351 BOWSER
Calderón, Roberto R. and Emilio Zamora. "Manuela Solís and Emma B. Tenayuca: A
Tribute." In Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History. Encino, CA:
Floricanto Press, 1990, p. 269-279.
LATINO 305.48868 BETWEEN
Kever, Jeannie. "La Pasionaria still speaks out for justice." San
Antonio Light (March 6, 1988), p. J3, J6.
TEXANA MICROFILM
"La Pasionaria de Texas." Time 31 (February 28, 1938), p. 17.
PERIODICALS MICROFILM
Peyton, Green. "La Pasionaria." In San Antonio: City in the Sun. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1946, p. 168-176.
TEXANA 976. 41 PEYTON
Pisano, Marina. "Legendary leader." San Antonio Express News (March
12, 1996), p. 1E.
TEXANA MICROFILM
Rips, Geoffrey. "Living history: Emma Tenayuca tells her story." Texas
Observer (October, 28, 1983), p. 7-15.
TEXANA MICROFILM
Shapiro, Harold A. "The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, Texas." In Chicano:
the Revolution of a people. Compiled by Renato Rosaldo. Huntington, NY: Robert E.
Krieger Publishing Co., 1977, p. 193-202.
LATINO 301.45168 ROSALDO
Work Projects Administration. The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio: The Problem of
Underpaid and Unemployed Mexican Labor. Written by Selden C. Menefee and Orin C.
Cassmore. Washington: United States GPO, 1940.
TEXANA 331.763
WEB SITES
Emma Tenayuca: The Dearest Friend I Never Met - A tribute to Emma Tenayuca by Victor Landa, news director of KVDA-TV in San Antonio."Por la raza y para la raza:" A Look At Tejana Activists, 1900-1998 - A brief biographical essay about Emma Tenayuca and four other Tejana activists, including Jovita Idar, Graciela Sánchez, Petra Mata and Cecilia Rodríguez.
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