United Farm Workers | The Fall | 3
American History Tellers
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Imagine its May 30th 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona your renowned doctor best known for having been Martin Luther King's personal physician today. Though you're tending to another famous patient in a small room inside a Chicano community center The room is plain and the onadorn brick walls radiate the searing midday heat from outside. Your patient Caesar Chavez lies on a bed soaked in sweat you check his blood pressure Watching the gauge with concern. It's been 19 days since he began a hunger strike and his health is beginning to fail him.
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