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Psychological toll of betrayal trauma may help explain why women kept silent for decades after alleged abuse by civil rights icon Cesar Chavez

  • Written by Anne P. DePrince, Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
imageCesar Chavez became a national hero for his advocacy of farmworkers' rights. Here he gives a talk at Boston University in April 1979.Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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