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Bexar, Texas in the 1930s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Lydia Mendoza sings “Mal Hombre”
    date 1934map Bexar, Texastags Tejano Music, Mexican American Women

    On a hot sunny day in a plaza on the streets of San Antonio, a young girl and her family set up a few chairs and arrange themselves with their instruments. The plaza is full of people selling and eating food, going about talking, and small groups of men strumming on their guitars in the background. Then suddenly the small voice of a young girl starts to sing amidst the crowd. She sings songs known...

  2. Unlikely Hero: Emma Tenayuca
    date 1932 to 1947map Bexar, Texastags Mexican-American, Emma Tenayuca, The Great Depression, San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio River Walk, The New Deal, WPA, CCC, AAA, Worker's Alliance, Unemployed Council, strikes, Dorothy Frock's Company, Finck Cigar Company

    Mexican-Americans were not immune to the catastrophic effects of The Great Depression.  Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, San Antonio saw an influx of migrant families from the lower Rio Grande Valley in search of work and food.  This migration proved more disastrous to an already delicate situation in the city.  As conditions worsened, an unlikely defender of the Mexican-American people, sixteen-year-old...