Phoenix Street Transportation Department
Suggested design for ceremonial sign in Phoenix.
On Tuesday, Phoenix leaders will consider adding ceremonial street signs to honor labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.
Chavez was born in Yuma in 1927. He died nearby in 1993. For most of his 66 years, Chavez fought for civil rights and better wages and working conditions for farm workers.
In 1972, he went on a hunger strike as president of United Farm Workers of America in Phoenix to protest a state law prohibiting the organization of farm workers. During his 24-day fast, Chavez made the Santa Rita Center near 10th Street and Buckeye Road his base of operations. Today the small building is owned by Chicanos Por La Causa and is on the Phoenix Historic Property Register.
President Bill Clinton awarded Chavez a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the country, in 1994.
If city council approves, Phoenix will add blue ceremonial signs at 23 intersections that read: Cesar Chavez Boulevard. The signs appear just below the Baseline Road signs from 75th Avenue to 48th Street. The estimated cost of $ 17,200 would be covered by funds available in Council District 7’s office budget.
In 2015, Phoenix installed ceremonial signs in honor of another civil rights leader. Along Broadway Road in south Phoenix are 32 blue signs that read: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Phoenix Streets Transportation Department
In 2015, Phoenix installed ceremonial signs in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along Broadway Road.
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