1932 to 1947

Bexar, Texas

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...