Dolores Huerta, labor activist and civil rights icon, dies at 96
Dolores Huerta was a labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded the group that later became the United Farm Workers.
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Dolores Huerta was a labor activist and civil rights leader who co-founded the group that later became the United Farm Workers.
In her first public interview since the investigation, Dolores Huerta said that at the time of the incidents, she felt alone and trapped.
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers movement with Cesar Chavez, alleges that Chavez "manipulated and pressured" and later forced her against her will to have sex with him in the 1960s, fathering two children. She spoke out after two other women alleged to The New York Times that they were sexually abused by Chavez in the 1970s when they were 12 and 13 years old.
Allegations of abuse of women and girls by union leader Cesar Chavez were first reported by the New York Times on Wednesday.