Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are asking why "a community is only allowed to have one figure."

The Senate on Thursday voted to repeal Cesar Chavez Day in the state following allegations of sexual abuse against the labor and civil rights leader.

That rallying cry was long associated with United Farm Workers, the largest farmworker union in the U.S. It was coined by Huerta, who told the Times she stayed silent for decades after Chavez raped her in the 1960s for fear that any negative attention would hurt the larger movement.

The university joins a nationwide re-evaluation of Chavez's honorifics and holidays following accusations of sexual abuse by multiple women.

The Santa Fe School Board has voted to remove Cesar Chavez's name from an elementary school amid serious allegations against him, temporarily renaming it "White Tigers Elementary."

San Jose is cataloging its buildings, streets and other landmarks named after Cesar Chavez — and will seek broad public input before deciding whether to rename them — in a process city leaders say must center on survivors of the labor leader’s alleged abuse.

On Thursday, California lawmakers voted to rename Cesar Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day in light of the recent allegations against Chavez.

Cesar Chavez was never a squeaky-clean movement leader. I was once undocumented and I grew up knowing he hated the likes of us (“wetbacks” and “illegals,” he called us). I looked past this because I felt U.S. Latinos needed a Mexican American leader to look up to. But the rape of women and children is not something any of us can look past.