Flint to hail Cesar Chavez- Michigan

“Two decades later, Maria Enriquez still is full of pride over Flint’s status as the first U.S. city to rename a street in honor of workers rights leader Cesar Chavez.

The move to rename part of Lewis Street into Cesar Chavez Drive was a divisive fight that seemed out of character for a city built on the benefits of labor movement, said former Flint resident Enriquez, who now lives in Lansing.

“There was a doctor who had tried it before and failed because we hadn’t really learned to live together and people just didn’t want to rename something after this man,” she said.”

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