The New York Times

I Wrote a Cesar Chavez Biography. This Is How His Secrets Stayed Buried.

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Los Angeles Times

The books that created the César Chávez myth — and those that brought him down

Covered marquees. Downed statues. Painted-over murals. A canceled holiday. California has effectively exorcised César Chávez from the public sphere just weeks after a New York Times investigation ...
salisburypost

George Cassidy Payne: César Chávez and the price of hero worship

For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César Chávez, explored both his extraordinary ...
Seattle Times

‘The Cult of Cesar’: Inside the Mountain Compound Led by Cesar Chavez

KEENE, Calif. — It was 1979, and Cesar Chavez, then the head of the United Farm Workers, called a staff meeting at the union’s remote headquarters in the Tehachapi Mountains, 125 miles north of Los ...