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United Farm Workers creates a health plan for thousands of migrant farmworkers.

Date: 1970

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The United Farm Workers (UFW) organizes clinics in California and creates the Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan, which provides health insurance to thousands of farmworkers and their families.