Denver cancels march after NYT report on César Chávez abuse investigation

This New York Times study has had effects that go beyond just one city; it has caused significant events to be canceled in many states.Prominent people in the movement, including Dolores Huerta, who has been an ally of Chávez for a long time, have broken decades of quiet to talk about their own experiences of abuse.These testimonials have made the case for systemic accountability even stronger.People all throughout the country are putting a lot of pressure on the monuments and organizations that still bear the name of a famous civil rights leader because they found out that he had a terrible past.

There is currently a lot of support for changing the names of sites all around the country as public officials and regular people try to make sense of the labor leader's legislative victories and these personal crimes.From California schools to Arizona parks, the look of American cities is starting to change as people want to disassociate themselves from what the movement's founder is said to have done.The work of the United Farm Workers is still an important part of labor history, but more and more people agree that the movement belongs to the thousands of workers who battled for justice, not just one person whose private activities have caused so much grief.