{"id":227582,"date":"2026-03-19T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:01:33","slug":"cesar-chavez-memorial-covered-at-fresno-state-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227582\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez memorial covered at Fresno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The statue of Cesar Chavez on the campus of Fresno State was covered by a black tarp and black plastic on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after revelations of sexual misconduct by the American labor leader and civil rights activist.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Fresno City Councilman Miguel Aries announced Fresno would be removing the Chavez name from the streets of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Cesar Chavez Foundation says it has learned of \u201cdisturbing allegations\u201d that labor leader <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/cesar-chavez-foundation-says-its-investigating-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-by-chavez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cesar Chavez engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior<\/a> with women and minors during his time as president of the United Farm Workers of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply shocked and saddened by what we are hearing,\u201d the foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Wednesday,  civil rights leader <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/civil-rights-leader-dolores-huerta-says-encounters-chaves-led-to-secret-pregnancies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dolores Huerta released a statement<\/a> saying she was sexually assaulted by Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both sexual encounters with Cesar led to pregnancies,&#8221; said Herta. &#8220;I chose to keep my pregnancies secret and, after the children were born, I arranged for them to be raised by other families that could give them stable lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unknown at this time if Fresno State plans to remove the Cesar Chavez memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The statue of Cesar Chavez on the campus of Fresno State was covered by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-227582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227582","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=227582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}