CSPAN2 Panel Discussion On Stories That Shaped San Antonio July 6, 2014
San antonio was the pecan capital of the world and the pecan shelling capital of the world. The guys who owned the Big Companies had machines. They turned them off because they could get these mexicanamericans for nothing to shell the pecans in their homes. One of the things that really sort of illustrated who was where in that community at the time, a rabbi of Temple Bethel know, the rabbi before that, he was a cantankerous, radical supporter of the underdogs, and he stood up to the Mexican American economy workers. And not only did he talk to his congregation but he wrote a letter to the edi...
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