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Editor’s Note: This article contains language of sexual abuse. Please take care while reading.
An investigation that spanned nearly five years by the New York Times revealed last week that Cesar Chavez, the celebrated and highly esteemed Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist, sexually abused numerous women and young girls during the 1960s and 1970s.
Dolores Huerta, a civil rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder with Chavez, recently stated that she was sexually assaulted and raped by Chavez twice in the 1960s. Now 95, Huerta said she remained silent for decades to protect the farmworker movement as she hid two pregnancies from the public…