Los Angeles is a city of public art, and perhaps no work is more far-reaching and ambitious than the artist Judith F. Baca’s “Great Wall of Los Angeles,” a half-mile-long mural that portrays California and American history from prehistoric times to the 1950s. An expansion that is underway will add another half mile and complete the story, bringing it up to modern times. That means Cesar Chavez is about to enter the picture. An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the Latino civil rights movement. Baca and her team of artists agonized over how to respond to the revelations about Chavez in their works.
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