{"id":279544,"date":"2026-04-22T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:11:08","slug":"san-diego-city-council-officially-renames-cesar-chavez-day-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279544\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego City Council officially renames Ces\u00e1r Ch\u00e1vez Day, parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The San Diego City Council today officially removed the name of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez from a city holiday and a street in Barrio Logan, following last month’s shocking sexual abuse allegations against the deceased labor leader<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The City Council approved an amendment to the San Diego Municipal Code to rename the March 31 holiday to Farmworkers Day. Additionally, C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Parkway, located in Barrio Logan, has been renamed Chicano Park Boulevard. Both changes are intended to honor the legacy of farmworker-rights activism and the Chicano movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The farmworkers movement was a foundational part of the Chicano Movement, rooted in the fight for dignity and justice for workers across California and beyond,” said Mayor Todd Gloria. “In San Diego, that legacy is reflected in Barrio Logan and Chicano Park, which remain enduring symbols of community identity and cultural history. This renaming of the city holiday, as well as Cesar Chavez Parkway to Chicano Park Boulevard, reflects that history and ensures our civic assets align with our values.” <\/p>\n

The holiday and street were the latest of several institutions, parks and public spaces in San Diego County being considered for renaming following a New York Times report that Ch\u00e1vez allegedly sexually assaulted female followers as young as 12 in the 1970s and raped United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 96, in 1966. <\/p>\n

Both the San Diego Community College District and San Diego Unified School District have already undertaken efforts to rename facilities named after Ch\u00e1vez. <\/p>\n

The Times story was published one day after the UFW and the C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Foundation announced that they were abstaining from honoring the late labor leader on this year’s state holiday on March 31, citing “disturbing allegations.” Many governments around the state celebrated the day as Farm Workers Day instead. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Gloria issued an executive order last month directing city departments to remove references to Cesar Chavez from city programs, facilities and public assets. <\/p>\n

Over the past month, several community meetings were held to inform stakeholders and gather input on the renaming of the 0.8-mile street bearing Ch\u00e1vez’ name. The Barrio Logan Community Planning Group, Barrio Logan Association and Chicano Park Steering Committee supported the proposed renaming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, the city is in the process of updating the official name of the San Ysidro Larsen Field Community Center, which was previously called the C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Center.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Times said its story was based on interviews with more than 60 people, including top Ch\u00e1vez aides at the time, his relatives and former members of the UFW. <\/p>\n

The story quotes a woman who says Ch\u00e1vez took her into his office when he was 45 and she was 13, kissed her and pulled her pants down. She said dozens of sexual encounters followed over the next four years, though she says none involved intercourse. <\/p>\n

Another woman says she was 12 when Ch\u00e1vez groped her breast, and 15 when he arranged to have her stay at a motel during a march through California and had sexual intercourse with her.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Both women were the daughters of organizers who had marched in rallies alongside Ch\u00e1vez, according to the Times. The story claims that Ch\u00e1vez used other women in the farm labor movement for “sexual gratification.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Huerta, who turned 96 on April 10, told the newspaper that Ch\u00e1vez drove her to a secluded grape field in Delano, California, in 1966 and raped her in the vehicle. She said she never reported the attack out of concerns for police hostility toward Ch\u00e1vez and the labor movement, and because she feared she wouldn’t be believed. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, he used some of his great leadership to abuse women and children — it’s really awful,” Huerta told The Times. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez died in 1993 at age 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – The San Diego City Council today officially removed the name of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-279544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279544","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=279544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}