Interior shot of the new Institute of Texan Cultures. Guests walk toward the camera at a distance toward the right, and an illuminated flag of Texas adorns the back wall. Other artifacts and visual displays feature prominently in the photo.

Small exhibit featuring Emma Tenayuca and her experience as an activist.

Thread wall exhibit with threads forming negative space that reads, “Common Threads, Hilos Comunes”.

Clapboard sitting atop a director’s chair. The flapboard is an artifact from the second season of “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and the director’s chair is an artifact from the film “Machete Kills.” The flapboard credits Robert Rodriguez as both director and camera operator. The director’s chair features Robert Rodriguez’s name printed on fabric on the back of the chair.

Went to the opening weekend of the #InstituteofTexanCultures — #free admission until tomorrow! They have an exhibit on #EmmaTenayuca and the #PecanShellersStrike (which took place #OTDIH) as well as a rotating exhibit on #mum culture in #Texas.

Monochrome photo sourced from the San Antonio Light newspaper showing Latinx picketers in 1938 lining the sidewalk of a San Antonio storefront holding signs that read, “This Shop Unfair / Pecan Workers Local 172 / C.I.O.” Demonstrators dress warmly in cold weather with coats, hats, & other garb.

Monochrome photo of Emma Tenayuca sourced from the Museo Del Westside website. Tenayuca wears a a white collared blouse with six buttons forming a capital-letter “T”. Tenayuca is framed candidly off-center, smiling and looking off-camera to the right. She has neck-length hair pulled behind her ears.

Monochrome photo of six Latina pecan shelling workers sourced from the Library of Congress. The workers sit at a narrow table, flanked three on each side facing each other, with small burlap sacks of pecan meat and whole pecans between them on top of the table. The table is positioned in a small corner of a shack. The women wear blouses, dresses, and sweaters of varying patterns. All women stare down at the pecans in their hands while another woman toward the top center looks up at the workers opposite her, possibly in mid-conversation.

Monochromatic photo of protestors clashing with local San Antonio Police Department officers, sources from UT Libraries. The photo shows a chaotic scene from above with officers toward the left inside the entrance to an unidentified building while a larger crowd of protestors to the right, mostly wearing white dress shirts and hats, pressing tightly against the police force to the left.

#OTDIH in 1938, the historic #PecanShellersStrike took place right here in #SanAntonio. Nearly 12,000 workers (mostly #Latina, led by #EmmaTenayuca) walked off the job in protest of wage cuts to already underpaid positions in unsafe working conditions. Read more here 👉🏽 guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil...