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Just a few weeks ago, Yesica Ramírez was planning to attend a rally in Orlando to commemorate the legacy of Cesar Chavez. That celebration is canceled. And Ms. Ramírez – as well as other fellow farmworkers and fighters for causes Mr. Chavez embodied – is struggling to make sense of the man he was, regardless of the legacy he left. His legacy, too, has in many ways been a part of her own identity…

Antonio Bustamante has kept a watercolor of labor leader César Chavez for more than 35 years, hanging it on the wall of his law office in Yuma, Arizona. As a young man, he was moved by Chavez and helped organize workers before joining his security team. Like many others, Bustamante must now wrestle with reconciling the man he adored with the allegations Chavez groomed and sexually abused women…

From California to Minnesota, elected leaders and civil rights groups are scrambling to distance themselves from César Chavez’s name in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls during the 1960s as he became the face of the farmworkers’ movement. Efforts have been swift and widespread to rebrand events ahead of what typically was a day to celebrate the life and legacy of the…