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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

In a November 2019 photo provided by Hall and Hall is the Dawson Elk Valley Ranch in New Mexico, which is on the market for $96 million. The land once was home to the town of Dawson, N.M., the birthplace of Mexican American civil rights icon Dolores Huerta. (Hall and Hall via AP)

Dolores Huerta birthplace, former mining site up for sale

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Labor leader Dolores Huerta joins protesters in crowding the hallway outside the Fresno County Board of Supervisors chambers to argue for better pay for county caregivers, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Fresno, Calif. Huerta has been arrested along with several other union members during a protest to demand a raise for Fresno county home care workers. The Fresno Bee reports sheriff deputies put Huerta and the others in plastic handcuffs and removed them Tuesday from the entrance to the Board of Supervisors chambers, where supervisors were holding a closed meeting. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP)

Labor leader Dolores Huerta arrested in worker demonstration

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Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is honored on the floor of the House of Representatives, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Santa Fe, N.M. Huerta is co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Dolores Huerta joins right-to-die bilingual push in 4 states

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Dolores Huerta, 88, the Mexican-American social activist who formed a farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, stands for the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish while visiting the New Mexico Statehouse on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. The New Mexico-born Huerta was honored by the House for &quot;Dolores Huerta Day&quot; as lawmakers work to save her birthplace in Dawson, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

New Mexico honors Dolores Huerta as birthplace sits vacant

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Charter school named after Dolores Huerta to fight closure

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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 1988, file photo, United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta, center, leads a rally 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, in San Francisco's Mission District as part of a national boycott of what the UFW claims is the dangerous use of pesticides on table grapes. Huerta, the social activist who formed a farm workers union with César Chávez and whose &quot;Si, Se Puede&quot; chant inspired Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign slogan, is the subject of a new PBS documentary. The film &quot;Dolores&quot; examines the life of the New Mexico-born Mexican-American reformer from her time as a tireless United Farm Workers leader and a campaign volunteer for Sen. Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential run. (AP Photo/Court Mast, File)

Film examines Dolores Huerta from jazz to ‘Si, Se Puede’

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

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