Why did Dolores Huerta stay silent about Cesar Chavez for decades?

Labor leader Dolores Huerta died at 96 at her home in Bakersfield, California. Her family said cancer was the cause, and they asked for privacy as they grieve.

She co-founded the farm workers' union with Cesar Chavez and led its strikes and boycotts. She was arrested 22 times, and a police officer once beat her severely, breaking her ribs and rupturing her spleen.

Earlier this year, the Times reported that Chavez had groomed and molested underage girls. Huerta then said, for the first time publicly, that he had raped her decades earlier. Asked why she stayed silent, she said: "I never talked about it to anybody, and the reason I didn't is because I just didn't want to hurt the movement."