{"id":225904,"date":"2026-03-18T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:57:07","slug":"fresno-state-will-remove-its-cesar-chavez-statue-from-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225904\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State will remove its Cesar Chavez statue from campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1113.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"The statue of Cesar Chavez located in Fresno State\u2019s Peace Garden was covered up following allegations that he sexual abused women and girls. Fresno State says the statue will eventually come down.\" alt=\"The statue of Cesar Chavez located in Fresno State\u2019s Peace Garden was covered up following allegations that he sexual abused women and girls. Fresno State says the statue will eventually come down.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The statue of Cesar Chavez located in Fresno State\u2019s Peace Garden was covered up following allegations that he sexual abused women and girls. Fresno State says the statue will eventually come down.<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State President Sa\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez-Sandoval said the university will remove its statue of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315102087.html\">Cesar Chavez<\/a>, prominently displayed in the campus Peace Garden, amid \u201cprofoundly troubling claims\u201d against the civil rights icon emerged Wednesday in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/18\/us\/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">New York Times investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez-Sandoval said Wednesday afternoon in a letter to the Fresno State community that the statue would soon come down. By late Wednesday morning, hours after the Times report published, the statue had already been covered in a black cloth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese profoundly troubling claims about the rape of women and minors call for our full attention and moral reckoning by removing his statue from our campus,\u201d Jim\u00e9nez-Sandoval said.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was erected in 1996 and currently stands in the Peace Garden, along with other statues memorializing other civil rights such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Return to fresnobee.com for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statue of Cesar Chavez located in Fresno State\u2019s Peace Garden was covered up following allegations that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16847,16848,112,114,113,742,15836,102124],"class_list":["post-225904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-dolores-huerta","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-ufw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}