EMMA TENAYUCA

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.

A section of Cevallos Street from Interstate 35 to Probandt Street will be dubbed Emma Tenayuca Memorial Way in honor of the labor and civil rights leader.

Local civil rights icon Emma Tenayuca is set to be honored decades after her work and activism in San Antonio.

In the midst of a labor revival, leaders are now holding up Emma Tenayuca's story as an example of the impact young people can have in politics.

It returns this weekend.

Gwyn Hartung said she came to strongly admire Emma Tenayuca after learning about her in a graduate-level American West and Borderlands class.

The late labor activist Emma Tenayuca has had numerous tributes since the late 1930′s when she led a successful strike by thousands of pecan shellers, among the city’s lowest paid workers at the time.

A San Antonio history 'not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens.'

The organizer wants more San Antonio recognition for Emma Tenayuca.

"Blood In Blood Out" made them co-stars, but the San Antonio art community made Jesse Borrego and Adan Hernandez "family." Adan Hernandez, the iconic artist behind the artwork of the classic 1993 film, died Saturday at his home in San Antonio. The West Side San Antonio native created the artwork that Borrego's character, Cruz Candelaria, was supposed to have painted in the film. RELATED: Historic San Antonio labor leader Emma Tenayuca honored by SmithsonianBorrego spoke of his friend, who he regarded more as "family," on Monday. "That's the beauty of being an artist, that when you're gone, your work is going to live on after you.

Emma Tenayuca, the 21-year-old labor leader who led the largest strike in city history against pecan plants in 1938, was honored by the world's largest museum on International Women's Day. While Tenayuca may not be a familiar name outside of Texas, her fight is revered in San Antonio and similarly aligns with the inception of International Women's Day. RELATED: Pentagon taps retired officer from SA to panel renaming Confederate-named basesIn the 1930s, San Antonio was home to the nation's largest pecan shelling industry, with nearly 40o factories. The Smithsonian included archived photos from the time period in San Antonio, for an accompanying video, showing the police tactics plant owners used on employees for three months. Millions of women marked the inaugural celebration by rallying for women's rights, according to the timeline.

click to enlarge Anne LewisLabor organizer Emma Tenayuca (center) was one of the many San Antonians involved in the Mexican American civil rights struggle. The San Antonio-based Mexican American Civil Rights Institute has received a cash injection from banker Wells Fargo to expand its digital programming.The new $20,000 grant will help MACRI expand access to its online resources for teachers and stage its first digital exhibition. “This grant will help us grow how we use digital media to connect today’s public to a vitally important past. Perhaps now more than ever, we need to know our nation’s full history to engage our present.”MACRI's digital exhibition will highlight Mexican American civil rights leaders and groups originating in San Antonio and South Texas. It will also reveal connections between the Alamo City and the national struggle for equal rights in education, employment, housing, voting and economic opportunity.

click to enlarge Anne LewisEmma Tenayuca was an educator, labor organizer and a notable alumna of San Antonio's Our Lady of the Lake University.On Thursday evening, OLLU's Center for Mexican American Studies and Research will hold an online discussion of Tenayuca's legacy and the future of Latinas in labor activism. Center director Aimee Villarreal and Valerie Martinez, an assistant professor of history at the school, will host the talk.The free event will also feature labor organizer Linda Chávez-Thompson and historian Gabriela González, who wrote about Tenayuca and other female Mexican American activists in her bookTenayuca was best known for her organizing Latinx workers during the 1930s, which included leading the San Antonio pecan shellers strike of 1938.Tickets and more information for the virtual event are available on Eventbrite Free, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, January 21, eventbrite.com

Facebook/ Trinity University PressSan Antonio author Sandra CisnerosTrinity University Press is inviting the public to a Wednesday night release and virtual discussion of its new bookThe anthology, available online now , celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico with 18 portraits of female role models and subversives who were revolutionary in their visions and ideas.Trinity's monthly Maverick Book Club features authors discussing books that help shape Texas' narrative landscape. Wednesday's live Zoom event will spotlight contributor Sandra Cisneros along with editors Ellen Riojos Clark and Kathy Sosa. Contributor and local scholar Norma Elia Cantú will moderate.The authors will discuss the lives and contributions of nun and writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, uncompromising artist Frida Kahlo and labor leader Emma Tenayuca, among others.The free event starts at 7 p.m. Register for the webinar hereStay on top of San Antonio news and views. Sign up for our Weekly Headlines Newsletter.