Just two weeks ago, cities across the country were finalizing plans for celebrations of Cesar Chavez Day.

Then, an investigative report from the New York Times revealed allegations that Chavez sexually abused women and girls for years, including Dolores Huerta, with whom he co-founded the United Farm Workers Union, or UFW.

Now, many of those cities are canceling those plans, and a day that was once a celebration

has become a painful reminder of his now tarnished legacy. Stephanie Sye reports.

On a day that once celebrated him, communities are now moving swiftly to distance themselves

from disgraced labor leader, Caesar Chavez, who died in 1993.

A New York Times investigation this month uncovered evidence that Chavez sexually abused women and girls for years while leading the farm workers movement.

Hearing about these allegations is definitely a hard thing to digest, but it's also a hard thing to ignore.

Cities like Milwaukee in Austin canceled celebrations entirely, while others emphasized the movement over the man.

In Denver, where a Chavez statue was dismantled,

activists instead celebrated Cise Pue de dee.

In English, yes we can.

And the patch of grass that bore Chavez's name for two decades

had a new handwritten sign, Dolores Huerta Park, after the woman

who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union. Querta herself, now 95, was revealed by the New York

Times to have been raped by Chavez.

I'm hoping that even though this is really difficult news and devastating news to absorb,

that it might give some new life to the farm worker movement to get out from under his shadow.

Geraldo Kadava is a professor of history in Latino studies at Northwestern University.

I think historians have already made the move toward recognizing that the United Farm

Workers was a broader social movement.

I think what placing Dolores Huerta at the foreground of the movement now does,

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