"I was arrested a number of times.

I never thought in terms of fear. I thought in terms of justice."

December 21, 1916 - July 23, 1999

• Family’s residence in Texas predated both Mexican Independence from Spain and the Mexico-U.S. War
  
• One of eleven children, Emma moved in with Grandparents to ease the financial burden on her family.
  
• At age 7, she began visiting Plaza del Zacate in downtown San Antonio with her grandfather to hear speaches made by Magonistas
  

• Early 1930’s: Read Leo Tolstoy and Karl Marx while attending Brackenridge High School in San Antonio
  
• In 1932-1933, at the age of 16 she is arrested for joining picket line to protest the working conditions of the mostly female employees at Finck Cigar Company
  
• Founded Two International Ladies’ Garment workers unions
  

• After the Strike, mechanized shelling became the norm as unskilled labor became too expensive.
  
• Historians consider the Pecan Shellers’ Strike to be the first significant victory in the Mexican-American struggle for political and economic equality in this country
  

"What started out as an organization for equal wages turned into a mass movement against starvation, for a minimum-wage law, and it changed the character of West Side San Antonio.”

Joined Communist Party because it advocated her passion for minority rights

Became Chairperson of Texas Communist Party in 1939

In San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium, a small meeting of the Texas Communist Party was attacked by 5,000 people who were “huntin’ Communists”

• Escaped through a tunnel with the aid of city police
  
• Blacklisted in San Antonio.
  
• Mayor of San Antonio’s political career ended
  

• Communist Party Member, 1937-1946
  
• Moved to Los Angeles after San Antonio and was Hounded by the FBI
  
• Moved to San Francisco and majored in Education at San Francisco State College, earning a degree in 1952
  
• Returned to San Antonio in 1960 and earned Masters in Education from Our Lady of the Lake University in 1974
  
• Taught in Harlandale School District in San Antonio until she retired in 1982
  

"La Pasionaria, we called her, because she was our passion, because she was our heart -- defendiendo a los pobres, speaking out at a time when neither Mexicans nor women were expected to speak at all."

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