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2. 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike - Wikipedia

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   The 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike was a labor strike involving 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Considered the largest labor strike in San Antonio's history, it saw mainly Mexican American pecan shellers, organized by labor activist Emma Tenayuca, protest wage cuts by the Southern Pecan Shelling Company.

3. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

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   The Works Progress Administration ( WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.

4. HemisFair '68 - Wikipedia

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   HemisFair '68 was the official 1968 World's Fair (or International Exposition) held in San Antonio, Texas, from April 6 through October 6, 1968.Local businessman and civic leader, Jerome K. Harris Sr., coined the name HemisFair and conceived the idea for the fair, hoping it would unite all the cultures that comprise San Antonio and solidify the city's reputation as a cultural and historic ...

5. Emma Tenayuca - Wikipedia

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   Occupation (s) Educator, labor organizer. Emma Beatrice Tenayuca (December 21, 1916 – July 23, 1999) was an American labor leader, union organizer, civil rights activist, and educator. She is best known for her work organizing Mexican workers in Texas during the 1930s, particularly for leading the 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike.

6. Align Lenawee to connect students, community at third ... - AOL

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   The Career Connections Job Fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Christian Family Center in Adrian, 1800 W. U.S. 223.

7. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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   The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] ( FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. [2] [3] It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". [4] It applies to employees engaged in interstate ...