The United Farm Workers, which Chavez co-founded, has denounced his alleged behavior and canceled celebrations of Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, a state holiday in California.

Among the locations and objects bearing Chavez’s name is a U.S. Navy cargo ship commemorating his service during World War II and the national monument established in 2012 by then-President Barack ...

California’s farmworking communities struggled to process the disturbing details of sexual abuse accusations against the labor icon and civil rights fighter.

Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside Cesar Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely ...

Chavez was accused of sexually abusing girls and women during his era leading the United Farm Workers. The union's co-founder Dolores Huerta said he abused her, too.

It was Dolores Huerta who coined the slogan “Sí, se puede” in 1972 when bringing together farmworkers in Arizona to fight a ...

Allegations of sexual abuse and assault against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday, were met with shock and anger toward the late activist alongside ...

Dolores Huerta, a civil rights icon who founded United Farm Workers with César Chávez in the 1960s, revealed more personal details Thursday about her allegations of sex assaults by Chávez and ...

Years of White House proclamations and Democratic praise for Cesar Chavez are now under fresh scrutiny after abuse ...

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The deeply disturbing news, more than 30 years after his death, that American civil rights hero and Arizona icon Cesar Chavez now stands accused of sexual abuse and assault, including by at least two ...