What is Emma Tenayuca?
[[File:Emmamarriage (cropped).jpg|thumb|Photo shows Emma Tenayuca standing in the Tenayuca family home.]] '''Emma Beatrice Tenayuca''' (December 21, 1916 - July 23, 1999<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emma Tenayuca (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/people/emma-tenayuca.htm|access-date=2022-04-19|website=www.nps.gov|language=en}}</ref>) was a [[Civil and political rights|Civil Rights]] [[Activism|Activist]] and [[Mexican Americans|Mexican American]] [[Worker|Labor]] [[Trades union|Organizer]]. == Early life == Tenayuca was born into a large Mexican [[Comanche]] family. Her family suffered from the [[Great Depression]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/migrantimaginari00cama|title=Migrant imaginaries : Latino cultural politics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands|last=Schmidt Camacho|first=Alicia R.|date=2008|publisher=New York : New York University Press|others=Library Genesis|isbn=978-0-8147-1648-9}}</ref> == Work == Tenayuca led [[Strike action|strikes]] and [[Protest|protests]]. She wanted Mexican American workers to have better working conditions and better pay in 1930s Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emma Tenayuca {{!}} Americans Who Tell The Truth|url=https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/emma-tenayuca|access-date=2022-04-20|website=www.americanswhotellthetruth.org}}</ref> Tenayuca worked with many [[moderate]] [[Trades union|unions]] such as the [[League of United Latin American Citizens]] or the [[International Ladies Garment Workers]]. But she believed those groups ignored many workers who needed help. She started her own organiation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emma Tenayuca -|url=https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/emma-tenayuca/|access-date=2022-04-20|website=Archives of Women's Political Communication|language=en}}</ref> This organization was a [[Communism|communist]] Texas group called the [[Workers Alliance of America]]. The group helped [[Unemployment|unemployed]] people.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emma Tenayuca (1916-1999): A Champion of Working People|url=https://www.li