U.S. National Institutes of Health

“Dr. Caleb Foote greets new patients in the waiting room of the Terronez Clinic,” Delano, California, 1975

Courtesy Peter Rudd

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United Farm Workers, the most influential organization of migrant workers in history, recruited volunteer physicians and nurses, and opened health clinics for its members. For many farm workers, this was the first time they’d had access to the care they needed.

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