The Phoenix City Council voted on Wednesday to permanently change the name of the city holiday that previously recognized the late labor leader Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez Day will now go by Farmworkers Day. The unanimous decision came following allegations earlier this year that Chavez sexually abused underage girls and women. Dolores Huerta, an organizer and activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Chavez in 1962, has publicly stated that she was one of his victims.
In a memo last week to Phoenix’s city manager, Mayor Kate Gallego and other City Council members requested the name change become permanent and that it fall on the Monday closest to April 6, which was an important milestone date for the National Farm Workers Association.
The city of Phoenix has also renamed streets and parks that carried the Chavez name.
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