An essay at the Hall of State in Fair Park tells the debated story of María Andrea Castañon Villanueva, a Tejana survivor of the Battle of the Alamo. Some...
“Tejanas at the Alamo: Conduits of Remembrance” celebrates the role of Mexican American women in Texas history.
“Growing up in South Texas, I never heard any Hispanic or Tejano names mentioned in my studies,” Erlinda Huizar, a descendant of an Alamo survivor said. “And it wasn’t until the ‘70s that there was a push to include the Tejanos.”Huizar is the third great-granddaughter of Tejana Alamo survivor, Ana Salazar Esparza. When organizers asked Huizar to write an essay about her third great-grandmother, she jumped at the opportunity to learn more about her family’s past.
She would become a single mother with little to no money after losing her husband to the battle. The trauma she endured would force her to never look at the Alamo again, Huizar said. Esparza’s story is just one Tejana’s account of the history surrounding the women at the Alamo.
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