Emma Tenayuca
/Overview
Emma Tenayuca born San Antonio, TX December 21, 1916 (d. 1999). Chicana labor organizer "La Pasionara de Texas"; Socialist anarchist speaker, often arrested; mobbed, 1939; opposed wars in Korea, Vietnam.
Quotations
"I just have a feeling, a very strong feeling, that if ever this world is civilized that it would be more the work of women." (Jerry Poyo interview, Feb. 21, 1987, Texas Cultures; photo poly usf.edu)