A tarnished “Cesar E. Chavez Parkway” sign sits above a stop sign in San Diego. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) When the news broke about labor leader Cesar Chavez, my first thought was: “These are only allegations.” I said to myself, “There is probably only one person still alive who probably knows the truth: civil rights leader Dolores Huerta.” After all, she was by his side for decades, fighting for the rights of farm workers across the United States.