{"id":217357,"date":"2026-03-24T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:46:13","slug":"city-of-san-antonio-seeks-public-input-on-new-name-for-cesar-e-chavez-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/217357\/","title":{"rendered":"City of San Antonio seeks public input on new name for C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The City of San Antonio wants public input on a potential name change for C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard in the wake of troubling allegations about the labor icon.<\/p>\n

An online survey<\/a> is open now until 5 p.m. Thursday, April 2, to offer suggestions on what to rename the major thoroughfare, which bisects downtown between Southwest 36th St. and South Hackberry St.<\/p>\n

The city shared news of the survey Monday afternoon on its official Instagram account. The questionnaire takes less than a minute to complete. <\/p>\n

Within the survey, the city said it\u2019s considering the name change \u201cin light of abuse allegations against C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez .\u201d <\/p>\n

The New York Times last week dropped a bombshell report uncovering allegations of sexual abuse involving Ch\u00e1vez and multiple women, at least one of whom was underage. The next day, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta said that she, too, had been raped by Ch\u00e1vez, leading to two unwanted pregnancies.<\/p>\n

Following the revelations, the city seems to be wasting no time to scrub Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s name from its street \u2014\u00a0or at least consider it. \u201cYour responses are confidential and will be used to help rename the street,\u201d the intro to the survey states.<\/p>\n

The first question asks \u201cWhat should Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. be renamed to?\u201d The only two available answers are its previous name, \u201cDurango Street,\u201d and \u201cOther.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other names floated online over the past week have included Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the UFW with Ch\u00e1vez but earned only a fraction of the credit while he was elevated to mythic levels. Indeed, more than 200 U.S. cities have streets named after the late labor leader.<\/p>\n

For labor inspiration closer to home, some online commenters proposed naming the street after Emma Tenayuca, who led the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio. During that labor action, 12,000 workers walked off the job to protest terrible working conditions and a reduction in pay from 5 cents per day to 3 cents.<\/p>\n

Still, other online commenters have proposed renaming the thoroughfare Ann Richards Boulevard, after the fiery female governor\u00a0and last Democrat elected to statewide office in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

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