Cesar E. Chavez Park in west Modesto will be renamed to Fourth Street Park, the Modesto City Council decided at its Tuesday meeting, in recognition of its historic identity and neighborhood.
The council had a choice between Fourth Street Park, Sí Se Puede Park and Farmworkers Park after the city’s Culture Commission made the suggestions last month.
Efforts to rename the park were prompted by a years-long New York Times investigation that accused Chavez of sexually abusing children and raping his United Farm Workers co-founder and civil rights icon, Dolores Huerta…