SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — As bombshell allegations against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez continue to reverberate, one San Francisco city supervisor is also calling for the removal of his name from a city street. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents District 9 posed on Instagram, saying, “My office will support community efforts to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from any District 9 institutions.”
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San Francisco’s District 9 includes parts of the Mission District, which is bisected by Cesar Chavez Street, a 3-mile stretch of roadway that runs from east to west from Bayview to Noe Valley. The street, which was formally Army Street, was named after the late civil rights leader in the mid-1990s, just a couple of years after his death.
The street is one of a number of Bay Area schools and landmarks named after Chavez. The future of these landmarks, along with the holiday that bares his name, are up in the air following a bombshell report in The New York Times alleging Chavez groomed and sexually assaulted young girls during the height of his influence in the 1970s.
Chavez’s image as a civil rights hero suffered further damage Wednesday following allegations from his close collaborator, fellow civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, that he sexually assaulted her and fathered two children she eventually gave away.
In her Instagram statement, Fielder mentioned Huerta by name, along with Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas, the two women who — now in their sixties — spoke to the Times about their alleged abuse at the hands of Chavez…