The Fort Worth city council has rescinded part of a resolution that honorarily named a north Fort Worth thoroughfare after now disgraced civil rights icon Cesar Chavez. But some city council members questioned the process that led to the honorary street sign toppers being removed before the council vote.
The city voted unanimously Tuesday morning to remove honorary street designations along 28th Street, which were added by the city in 2020. Chavez’s name appeared between North Main and Beach Street. On March 19, street toppers were removed from the street.
This decision comes after a New York Times investigation revealed that Chavez, who died in 1993, groomed and assaulted girls for years who were connected to the movement that led to better pay and conditions for farmworkers. Dolores Huerta, 95, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez, told the newspaper she was raped and impregnated twice by Chavez…