As California cities consider what to do with the vast set of landmarks named for the late Cesar Chavez, who was accused of sexual abuse in a New York Times story published March 18, Dolores Huerta said she would not like her name used as a replacement.
A spokesperson for Huerta, who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Chavez, told The Standard that streets, schools, and buildings “should not be renamed after her, but the UFW martyrs, organizers, farmworkers, and families who sacrificed everything to build something bigger than any one person.”
The 95-year-old Huerta, who showed up at San Francisco City Hall as recently as January in support of more pay for street cleaners, told The Times that Chavez raped her and coerced her into having sex in the 1960s, encounters that produced two children, which she secretly had others raise. She said she had never told anyone about the abuse, even her children…