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FAST AT FORTY ACRES – KOUNS & LEWIS 1968

PHOTO BY JON LEWIS

This photo was taken during the latter days of the Fast for Nonviolence. Cesar Chavez is noticeably weaker and slumped much further in his chair as he sits throught the daily evening religious service.  His right hand assistant, the Rev. Jim Drake, is close by in the very left of the photo.

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Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement.

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