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Emma Beatrice Tenayuca (December 21, 1916 – July 23, 1999) was an American labor leader, union organizer, civil rights activist, and educator.She is best known for her work organizing Mexican workers in Texas during the 1930s, particularly for leading the 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, mass-murderer; born in San Antonio [105] Joe Ball, murderer and possible serial killer; born in San Antonio; Allison J. Barnett, U.S. Army major general, retired to San Antonio [106] José María Jesús Carbajal, military officer in the Mexican–American War; born in San Fernando de Béxar, present-day San Antonio
La Prensa was founded on February 13, 1913, in San Antonio as a weekly newspaper by Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Sr. (1886–1953), a prominent exile of Mexico, native of Nuevo Leon, and supporter of Porfirio Diaz leading up to, and throughout the Mexican Revolution. [5]
In 1968, Esquivel was one of the six co-founders of the Con Safo art group, initially known as El Grupo or El Grupo Seis. [2] [3] The other original members of the San Antonio based group were Felipe Reyes (b. 1944, the principal organizer), Jesse Almazán (b. 1937 – d. 2002), José Garza (b. 1947 – d. 2021), Jesse “Chista” Cantú (b. 1935 – d. 2018), and Roberto Ríos (b. 1941).
San Jose. The Metropolitan University Club (1936–1990), created from merger of previous Metropolitan Social & Athletic Club (1936) and University Club of San Jose (1957), insolvent [54] The Sainte Claire Club (1895) [54] [55] The Silicon Valley Athletic Club (1981), until 2012 called the San Jose Athletic Club [54] [56]
The name Fox Photo vanished, when all of the stores were re-branded to Wolf Camera. Wolf Camera went bankrupt in 2001 and was purchased by Beltsville, MD based Ritz Camera . Ritz Camera filed for bankruptcy and was sold to a group of investors under the name RCI (Ritz Camera & Image) in 2009 and re-organized to a fraction of their stores, which ...
The Farah strike (1972–1974) was a labor strike by the employees of Farah Manufacturing Company, a clothing company in El Paso, Texas and New Mexico.The strike started at the Farah plant in San Antonio in 1972 when the Hispanic women, called Chicanas, led by Sylvia M. Trevino, at the company demanded a labor union formation to fight for better working conditions.
Johnny Joe Avalos (born December 1, 1986) is an American serial killer who raped and fatally strangled four women and a teenage girl in San Antonio, Texas, between 2012 and 2015. He strangled each victim with his hands, and also used plastic bags in three instances.