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Mexican American Labor Activist Emma Tenayuca
Mexican Traditional Celebration of Day of the Dead
Conditions on the US-Mexico Border near south Texas
More Issues on the US-Mexico Border

Mexican American Labor Activist Emma Tenayuca


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Caption: Emma Tenayuca standing inside jail, June, 1937. Photographed in San Antonio, Texas.

Credit: The San Antonio Light Collection, UT Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

Link: houstonculture.org/hispanic/tenayuca.html



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Caption: Emma Tenayuca, greeted by her friends. Arriving back in San Antonio after visiting New York City for medical treatment and to attend a Communist Party school, June 7, 1939.

Credit: The San Antonio Light Collection, UT Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

Link: houstonculture.org/hispanic/tenayuca.html

Mexican Traditional Celebration of Day of the Dead


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Caption: Calacas, skeletal figures sold in markets during the Mexican traditional celebration of El dia de los muertos, often satirize difficult situations in life.

Credit: Houston Institute for Culture

Link: www.houstonculture.org/mexico



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Caption: Family members sell pan de muerto (bread of the dead) before the Day of the Dead in early November at a market in Taxco, Mexico.

Credit: Houston Institute for Culture

Link: www.houstonculture.org/mexico

Conditions on the US-Mexico Border near south Texas


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Caption: Children who live in a trash dump near Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico rely on donations for better health, while their families struggle to survive the difficult economic conditions on the border.

Credit: Houston Institute for Culture

Link: www.houstonculture.org/border/help



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Caption: Girls, whose families have migrated from southern Mexico to find a better life on the border, gather in the window of a church in Reynosa, where Houston volunteer doctors offer free medical service.

Credit: Houston Institute for Culture

Link: www.houstonculture.org/border/help

More Issues on the US-Mexico Border


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Caption: The grave of a migrant is hidden in the West Texas brush.

Credit: Houston Institute for Culture

Link: www.houstonculture.org/border

 


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