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FILE - City workers remove a bust of César Chavez at César E. Chavez Park in Denver on Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, file)

For Cesar Chavez supporters, a painful question: What to do with his legacy now

By Fernanda Figueroa and Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

FILE - Pedestrians walk past the parking lot of the Cesar Chavez Learning Center in Dallas, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Swift and widespread, efforts to rebrand Cesar Chavez Day are fueled by emotion and duty

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk below an image of César Chavez on a mural in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Cesar Chavez Day events renamed, postponed or canceled after sexual abuse allegations

By Rebecca Boone - Associated Press

A César Chavez Street sign is shown in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California renames Cesar Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations

By Trân Nguyễn - Associated Press

FILE - Migrant farmworkers head to pick crops on an early morning in Fresno, Calif., on July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Women farmworkers who built their own fight against sexual assault cope with Chavez allegations

By Alexandra Olson and Dorany Pineda and Claire Savage - Associated Press

FILE - United Farm Workers members march along River Road from Walnut Grove, Calif. to Elk Grove, Calif. Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (Jessica Christian /San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

UFW advocates for farmworkers, but represents fewer now than during Chavez’s era

By Amy Taxin - Associated Press

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to the media Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Myer)

Sen. John Cornyn announces legislation to defund Cesar Chavez national park site

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta, center, leads a rally in San Francisco's Mission District on Nov. 19, 1988, along with Howard Wallace, president of the San Francisco chapter of the UFW, left, and Maria Elena Chavez, 16, the daughter of Cesar Chavez, right, as part of a national boycott of what the UFW claims is the dangerous use of pesticides on table grapes. (AP Photo/Court Mast, File)

Dolores Huerta ends her silence, champions decades of advocacy for marginalized groups

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

A sanitation worker picks up trash next to a mural of César Chavez in Bakersfield, Calif., Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

From hero to zero: U.S. grapples with how to cancel Cesar Chavez

By Kerry Picket and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez talks to striking Salinas Valley farmworkers during a large rally in Salinas, Calif., on March 7, 1979. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Advocates work to reconcile Cesar Chavez’s labor rights legacy with sexual abuse allegations

By Jacques Billeaud, Fernanda Figueroa and Hallie Golden - Associated Press

United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez is shown at an anti-apartheid rally in St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston, Mass., on Feb. 26, 1985. (AP Photo/Charlie Krupa) **FILE**

Left turns on Cesar Chavez after horrific allegations of rape, sexual abuse

By Stephen Dinan and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez talks to striking Salinas Valley farmworkers during a large rally in Salinas, Calif., on March 7, 1979. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Cesar Chavez Day events renamed, postponed or canceled after sexual abuse allegations

By Rebecca Boone - Associated Press

Cesar Chavez, a farm worker, labor organizer and leader of the California grape strike, is seen in a California works office in 1965. (AP Photo, George Brich, File)

United Farm Workers nixes Cesar Chavez Day celebrations over ‘troubling’ sex-abuse allegations

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Cesar Chavez’s legacy lives on in Biden’s new campaign chair

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

In this undated photo, labor leader Maria Moreno speaks with migrant farmworkers in rural California. A new film dives into the mystery around the Mexican American labor leader who organized farmworkers years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and then disappeared from the public eye. (George Ballis/Take Stock via AP)

Film explores Latina union leader who organized farmworkers

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

This July 6, 2017 photo shows a makeshift memorial to Hispanic Civil War Union soldiers who fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass in Northern New Mexico outside Santa Fe. It's a typical representation for many sites linked to U.S. Latino history: It's shabby, largely unknown and always at risk of disappearing if it weren't for a handful of history aficionados. The lack of historical markers and preserved historical sites connected to Latino civil rights worries scholars who feel the scarcity is affecting how Americans see Hispanics in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

US lacks Latino historical sites and landmarks, scholars say

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

This combination of 1963-1979 photos shows, from left, Cesar Chavez, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gloria Steinem. The protest marches that have filled the nation’s streets since the election of Donald Trump rely on multiple voices, a change from the heyday of ‘60s social activism where there often was one famous face connected to a cause. The era of Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez, both charismatic leaders, has given way to many people speaking out in rallies for women, immigrant rights, gun control. Social media has also made it easier to organize protests without a big name at the center. (AP Photo, File)

Social media is the new heart of political protests

By SHARON COHEN - Associated Press

Students to stay home, farmworkers to march for Cesar Chavez

Associated Press

**FILE** Cesar Chavez gestures as he speaks during a Los Angeles news conference March 8, 1989. Chavez, the United Farm workers president who staged a life-threatening fast against pesticide use in 1988, said the union's boycott of California table grapes is a success that has forced growers to lower prices and dump fruit they couldn't sell. (AP Photo/Alan Greth)

EDITORIAL: California farm workers resist union attempt

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES