{"id":295717,"date":"2026-05-01T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:03:15","slug":"street-signs-honoring-cesar-chavez-taken-down-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295717\/","title":{"rendered":"Street signs honoring Cesar Chavez taken down in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Street signs in Fresno that once proudly honored Civil Rights activist Cesar Chavez began to be taken down Friday as part of an extensive removal process along a 10-mile stretch of roads.<\/p>\n

City leaders elected to remove the Cesar Chavez name and have the three combined streets reverted to their original names less than two years ago after they were changed to celebrate Chavez.<\/p>\n

The change back of roughly 200 street signs is part of the aftermath from a New York Times investigation in March that reported Chavez allegedly groomed and abused children and raped women.<\/p>\n

Among Chavez\u2019s victims was fellow Civil Rights icon Dolores Huerta, who broke decades of silence and confirmed such abuse.<\/p>\n

The street sign changes coincide with the Fresno County Board of Supervisors\u2019 vote to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Fresno County Farmworker and Agriculture Appreciation Day.<\/p>\n

Chavez died at 66 in 1993.<\/p>\n

The project to revert the street signs to California Avenue, Ventura Street and Kings Canyon Road was expected to be completed next week.<\/p>\n

\"City City of Fresno crews begin taking down the Cesar Chavez Boulevard street signs replacing with Ventura Street signs Friday morning, May 1, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com \"City City of Fresno crews begin taking down the Cesar Chavez Blvd. signs replacing with Ventura Street signs Friday morning, May 1, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com \"A A Ventura Street sign has replaced the Cesar Chavez Blvd. Friday morning, May 1, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com \"City City of Fresno crews begin taking down the Cesar Chavez street signs, replacing with Ventura Street signs Friday morning, May 1, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com
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Bryant-Jon Anteola is a multimedia reporter for The Fresno Bee, writing stories and producing videos about sports, news and random topics relatable to those in the Fresno area. He\u2019s won a McClatchy President\u2019s Award and received honorable mention by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He enjoys sports because of the competition, camaraderie and energy, and views sports as a microcosm of society.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Street signs in Fresno that once proudly honored Civil Rights activist Cesar Chavez began to be taken down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-295717","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\/295717","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=295717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}