Tenayuca’s name will be added to the street signs near the site of the old pecan shelling factories on Cevallos Street, between Interstate 35 and Probandt Street in Southtown.
Mayor Ron Nirenberg points to a photo of Emma Tenayuca in 1937, the only woman in a meeting with then-San Antonio Mayor Charles K. Quin and U.S. immigration department officials to discuss the scarcity of WPA jobs.San Antonio City Council voted Thursday to honor 1930’s labor organizer, educator and civil rights activist Emma Tenayuca with a street designation near the site of the famous Pecan Shellers strike.
While she was denigrated at the time for being a radical and a communist, Tenayuca’s work paved the way for many modern workers’ rights. They protested for nearly three months; many pecan shellers were sprayed with tear gas and thrown in jail. Tenayuca led the strike with the Workers Alliance of America, which represented almost 10,000 workers in San Antonio at the time.
Dennis Campa, a nephew of Tenayuca’s, said the family was “eternally grateful and appreciative” of the recognition, but added his late aunt would want everyone to think of the workers when they think of her name. The council consideration request mentioned a statue of Tenayuca, but it was not discussed Thursday. According to a city spokesman, an art piece to pay homage to Tenayuca could be a possibility in the future.
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