The Brief
- Shocked over the sexual abuse allegations against César Chávez , organizations have already removed murals and statues of the late labor leader.
- Sonoma State, Fresno State and a private home in San Francisco have already covered up images of Chavez.
- Cities including San Jose are working to renamed plazas named after Chávez
SAN FRANCISCO – Organizations across the country and California – the birthplace of the United Farm Workers movement – have already begun removing depictions of the late Latino labor leader César Chávez from public spaces after the explosive allegations in the New York Times revealed this week that he allegedly raped and sexually assaulted women and girls decades ago.
Those allegations included that Chávez sexually molested underage girls and twice impregnated his colleague and longtime labor ally, Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the UFW with him.
She described how Chávez manipulated her into having sex with him one time, and raped her a second. She stayed quiet all these years, she said, because she didn’t want to detract from the good work they were doing in the civil rights movement to get farmwokers fair pay and better working conditions.…