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Introduction
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1: "Estallara Una Huelga de Nueceros," ("Pecan Shellers Remain Firm")
La Prensa, 30 January 1938
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2: "Pecan Plant Workers Strike," San Antonio Light, 31 January 1938
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3: "Siguen Firmes Los Nueceros," ("Pecan Shellers Remain Firm") La Prensa,
1 February 1938
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4: "Lograron Un Triunfo Los Nueceros," ("Pecan Shellers Attain Victory")
La Prensa, 2 February 1938
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5: "Pecan Strike Heads Offer to Quit," San Antonio Light, 3 February
1938
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6: "First Violence in S.A. Pecan Strike," San Antonio Light, 4 February
1938
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7: "Pecan Workers Protest Civil Rights Curb," The Daily Worker, 4
February 1938
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8: "Chief Kilday Calls Out Reserve Force," San Antonio Light, 7 February
1938
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9: "El Gobernador Ordena Se Investigue La Huelga," ("The Governor Orders Investigation
of Strike") La Prensa, 12 February 1938
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10: "S.A. Strikers Tell Police Beatings," San Antonio Light, 15 February
1938
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11: "Beasley Tells Court 6000 on Strike," San Antonio Light, 24 February
1938
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12: "Allred Told Arbitration Stalled," San Antonio Light, 4 March
1938
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13: Texas Civil Liberties Union, San Antonio: The Cradle of Texas Liberty
and Its Coffin, 1938
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14: "Pecan Strikers Return to Work," San Antonio Light, 8 March 1938
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15: "Pecan Strikers Appeal for Aid in Battle," The Daily Worker, 9
March 1938
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16: Letter from Mrs. Charles Britton to Mrs. Frances Perkins with enclosure,
11 March 1938
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17: "Third Arbiter in Strike to be Named," San Antonio Light, 11 March
1938
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18: "S.A. Pecan Shellers to Arbitrate Trouble," The Weekly Dispatch,
18 March 1938
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19: "Pecan Strikers Dance in Street on Victory," The Daily Worker,
23 March 1938
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20: The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio , Works Project Administration
Report, 1940
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21: Excerpt, Alberta Snid Interview, ca. 1978
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22: Excerpt, Emma Tenayuca Interview, 21 February 1987
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23: Excerpt, Emma Tenayuca Obituary, San Antonio Express-News, 24 July
1999
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24: San Antonio Pecan Shellers
Strike Footage, 1938
Image 1:
Rations Given at Guadalupe Church
Image 2:
Pecan Plant: Cracking Pecans
Image 3:
Funeral Hearse
Image 4:
Mr. and Mrs. Medina in front of their 6 by 12 foot Shack
Image 5:
Caring for Plants and Flowers at Home
Image 6:
Some of the Better Pecan Shellers Homes
Image 7:
Recess Time at West Side School
Image 8:
Row of Pecan Sheller Homes
Image 9:
School Children Having Lunch
Image 10:
Pecan Sheller Family
Image 11:
Pecan Sheller Home
Image 12:
Homes in San Antonio's West Side
Image 13:
Poor Working Conditions in Pecan Plant
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