Tenayuca, Emma

United States labor organizer

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In Pecan Shellers’ Strike
Mexican American labour organizer Emma Tenayuca emerged as their leader. Known as La Pasionaria (“The Passionate One”) for her rallying speeches, Tenayuca had helped form the Texas Workers Alliance—a branch of the communist- and socialist-oriented Workers Alliance of America—a few years before to advocate for unemployed and underpaid workers…
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