Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 21—Wind storms earlier this year, coupled with a late spring freeze in 2021 and an early fall freeze in 2022, have wreaked ...

San Antonio has never been known as a strong union town, but it was the site of a major uprising by laborers in 1938. The 37-day pecan shellers strike involved as many as 6,000 workers, largely ...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit with art and history students at Burbank High School, my alma mater, to discuss San Antonio labor leader Emma Tenayuca and the pecan shellers’ strike. When ...

A short account of the life of Emma Tenayuca and the Texas pecan shellers' strike of largely Hispanic workers in which she played a leading role. Submitted by Steven. on February 2, 2016 In Depression ...

If Texas had our own Lone Star State version of Labor Day, then your three-day weekend would probably fall this week - the anniversary of the great Pecan-Shellers' Strike. Eighty years ago this ...

CAMERON, S.C. — The Golden Kernel Pecan Company in Cameron, South Carolina, was founded in 1924. For 100 years, the family-owned business has become a household name in Calhoun County for shelling ...

Wind storms earlier this year, coupled with a late spring freeze in 2021 and an early fall freeze in 2022, have wreaked havoc on Oklahoma’s pecan crop the past couple of years, but the 2023 outlook is ...