The Rush to Strip Cesar Chavez’s Name From Roads and Schools
California lawmakers move to rename Chavez’s holiday “Farmworkers Day” over claims the late labor-icon abused women and girls in the 1960s and ’70s. Source link
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Officials across the U.S. push to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from streets, parks and holidays
His name seems like it’s everywhere: Cesar Chavez Avenue cuts through downtown Los Angeles. Phoenix has Cesar Chavez Library, located in Cesar Chavez Park. Dozens of roads from Utah to Michigan bear his name, and some three dozen schools in California alone were named to honor his legacy as a labor movement trailblazer and civil … Read more
Many work to reconcile César Chavez’s labor rights activist legacy with sexual abuse allegations
PHOENIX — Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox’s daughter called this week to inform them of sexual abuse allegations that were … Read more