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On May 12, 1972, Mexican American labor organizer and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike. The strike, which he undertook in opposition to an Arizona law severely restricting farm workers’ ability to organize, lasted 24 days and drew national attention to the suffering of itinerant farm workers in the Southwest. Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Labor organizer and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez begins hunger strike – 1972”
