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National Farm Workers Service Center Health Clinic, Calexico, CA, 1973
Patients in the waiting room of the National Farm Workers Service Center’s health clinic, decorated with posters of union leader Cesar Chavez and revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, Calexico, CA, 1973
Courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Photographer Glenn Pearcy
Farm workers’ organizations saw health care as central to peoples’ struggle for dignity and better conditions for both work and home life. Affiliates of the United Farm Workers of America opened numerous clinics for migrant agricultural workers and their families in the 1960s and 1970s.