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The 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike: Document-based question

(Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002).

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The 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike: Document-based question, (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002)..

•The 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike, DBQ: Part A

•Excerpt from "Siguen Firmes Los Nueceros," La Prensa, 1 February 1938, p. 1.

•Selected Photos of Pecan Shellers Living and Working Conditions, Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., RG 69-57-20580-D

•"Pecan Strike Heads Offer to Quit," San Antonio Light, 3 February 1938, pp. 1, 4.

•"Pecan Workers Protest Civil Rights Curb," The Daily Worker, 4 February 1938, p. 3.

•"Chief Kilday Calls Out Reserve Force," San Antonio Light, 7 February 1938, pp. 1, 5.

•"S.A. Strikers Tell Police Beatings," San Antonio Light, 15 February 1938, p. 1.

•"Allred Told Arbitration Stalled," San Antonio Light, 4 March 1938, p. 10.

•"Pecan Strikers Return to Work," San Antonio Light, 8 March 1938, p. 6-A.

•Selden Menefee and Oric C. Cassmore, The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940), pp. 16-19.

•Excerpts from Interview with Alberta Snid, ca. 1978, Texas Labor Archives, Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington.

•The 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike, DBQ: Part B