Advocates work to reconcile César Chavez’s labor rights legacy with sexual abuse allegations
- Posted on March 19, 2026
- By Chicago Tribune
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Advocates work to reconcile César Chavez’s labor rights legacy with sexual abuse allegations
Latino leaders and community groups quickly called the alleged abuse by Chavez inexcusable, but they emphasized that the farmworker movement was never just about a single man. Chavez died in California in 1993 at age 66.
