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LOS ANGELES () — Cesar Chavez’ life and career are memorialized in larger-than-life murals, monuments, intersections and schools in cities and small farm towns across the country. Now every piece of that is in question.
Lionized as leader of the Latino labor movement, Chavez’s legacy is now crippled by allegations of sexual assault.
The New York Times first reported Wednesday that it found Chavez groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.
Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta, 95, said she had two separate sexual encounters with Chavez in the 1960s, one where she was “manipulated and pressured” and another where she was “forced against my will.”
The United Farm Workers union has distanced itself from its founder.
The allegations have sparked questions about whether public honors should remain in place, including street signs and school names.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said she will introduce a motion “to explore renaming the county holiday.” She said the process will include labor and community organizations and will be “grounded in the same collective bargaining process that established the holiday.”
Solis did not offer a possible new name, but county Supervisor Janice Hahn suggested in a statement Wednesday morning that the county consider “Farmworker Day.”
Also on Wednesday, the advocacy group California Rising called for the official renaming of Cesar Chavez Avenue to Dolores Huerta Avenue.
A spokesperson for the group said public spaces must reflect values that honor and protect communities, adding that the proposed renaming is positioned as a “course correction” that “acknowledges harm, challenges long accepted narratives, and centers a legacy that better represents dignity and equity for current and future generations.”
City News Service and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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