Time for a monument to labor activist Emma Tenayuca? A St. Mary's University grad student thinks so.
For San Antonio graduate student Gwyn Hartung, a single plaque in a park downtown dedicated to San Antonio-born labor activist Emma Tenayuca just isn’t cutting it.
She’s launched a petition to change that.
Hartung, 23, is a student at St. Mary’s University pursuing her master’s in public history. As part of her graduate studies capstone project — a project students must complete to graduate that usually encompasses real-life uses of their academic studies — Hartung first launched a petition to change the name of Beauregard Street in King William to Emma Tenayuca Street.
After learning more about the street’s namesake and getting pushback from the neighborhood association, she’s updated her petition and widened her efforts to bring greater recognition to the woman who led the San Antonio pecan shellers strike in 1938, when she was just 21 years old.
Hartung told the San Antonio Report she originally set out to get the name of Beauregard Street changed because she and one of her professors believed that the street, located in the King William district, was named for Pierre Gustave Toutant “P.G.T.” Beauregard, the Confederate general who helped launch the American Civil War by leading the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
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