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United Farm Workers | The Fall | 3

American History Tellers

CHAPTER

Introduction

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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