Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies
She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.
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She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.
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 we
Allegations of abuse of women and girls by union leader Cesar Chavez were first reported by the New York Times​ on Wednesday.
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