His name seems like it’s everywhere: Cesar Chavez Avenue cuts through downtown Los Angeles. Phoenix has Cesar Chavez Library, located in Cesar Chavez Park. Dozens of roads from Utah to Michigan bear his name, and some three dozen schools in California alone were named to honor his legacy as a labor movement trailblazer and civil rights icon.
That all may be changing soon.
Seismic allegations that Chavez sexually abused young girls and women, including fellow labor movement leader Dolores Huerta, have forced a reckoning among local officials and the public about what to do with a figure whose name has loomed so large for so long.
Huerta, 95, said in a statement Wednesday that Chavez, a co-founder of what became the United Farm Workers, coerced her into having sex with him once and, on another occasion, raped her. Huerta first revealed her claims of sexual assault to The New York Times,
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