Shooti 28 days ago
#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth
In the depths of the Great Depression, Hispanic pecan-shelling workers in Texas endured sweatshop conditions to earn $2 to $3 a week. In 1938, 22-year-old Emma Beatrice Tenayuca led 12,000 workers, mostly women, in a strike for higher wages. /1