In the two days after allegations emerged that the famed farmworker rights leader and Chicano figure sexually assaulted minors and fellow labor icon Dolores Huerta, Chavez is being erased at an unprecedented rate. Murals depicting Chavez in Los Angeles were unceremoniously painted over. Soon, the old street names — Kings Canyon Road, Ventura Street and California Avenue — will return to the nearly 10-mile-long corridor. The statue and murals of Cesar Chavez have been covered up amid what the National Farm Workers Assn. But statues including one in downtown Los Angeles, south of Olvera Street, were eventually taken down.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2026 16:01 UTC