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When he was 13, Tijerina moved to Houston to work as a busboy for $9 a week, according to the. Ten years later, he opened his own restaurant called the Mexican Inn on Main Street.
Tijerina was one of the founders of the Latin American Club of Harris County, which registered Mexican-American voters and taught them about the political process. LAC eventually merged with the local chapter of theTijerina served as national LULAC president from 1956 to 1960. To counter the high failure and dropout rates among Spanish-speaking children, he founded a preschool instruction program that later became the model for the federal Head Start program.
Selena's solo career took off in the 1980s and she became known as"La Reina de la Onda Tejana" or "the Queen of Tejano music." In 1994, her"Live!" album won a Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album, making her the first female Tejano artist to win the award and her popularity continued to soar.
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