Less than six months after Cesar Chavez died, his family members were in Santa Ana engraving their names in cement during a groundbreaking for Cesar Chavez Continuation High School.
The campus of Santa Ana Unified’s Cesar Chavez High School opened in 1994.
On Wednesday, district officials were reviewing allegations that have emerged in a New York Times investigative report accusing Chavez of sexually assaulting female followers as young as 12 in the 1970s. United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95, also told the New York Times that Chavez raped her in 1966.
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District spokesperson Fermin Leal said the district was considering how to respond, adding that officials so far had not received any concerned messages from families.
The late labor leader has been honored in Orange County with a park in Santa Ana and inclusion in multiple murals of the Chicano movement and community achievements.