Salt Lake City residents can now officially travel on Dolores Huerta Boulevard.

The Salt Lake City Council on Tuesday approved the ceremonial renaming of 500 South, between State Street and 700 East, after the longtime activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers.

Huerta “is a symbol of the courage we need more of: The courage to challenge wrongdoing, to uplift others, and to help build a more equitable world,” Council Chair Alejandro Puy said.

“I hope that current and future children in our city grow up looking to Huerta as a role model — someone who fought tirelessly for a better society and who found the strength to speak her truth, even in the face of injustice," Puy added.

Back in 2002, council members named that stretch of 500 South after labor leader Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993. In March, though, The New York Times reported that two women accused Chavez of sexually assaulting them as teens in the early 1970s.

In the same article, Huerta, now 96, publicly alleged for the first time that Chavez sexually assaulted her in the 1960s, when they were working together to secure rights for migrant farmworkers. All three women feared reporting the allegations at the time would damage the movement, the Times reported.

Salt Lake City crews removed all street signs with Chavez’s name last month.

In Ogden, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said signs on 30th Street that once commemorated Chavez were removed shortly after the Times investigation, with no plans to rename the street for someone else.

West Valley City also has a commemorative street named for Chavez, on 2320 South between Redwood Road and the Jordan River. A city spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday about the status of that street’s name.

Dolores Huerta worked alongside Chavez to organize labor campaigns, boycotts and marches through United Farm Workers. She is known for coining the union’s rallying slogan, “Si, se puede” — “Yes, we can” — a phrase Barack Obama borrowed for his 2008 presidential campaign.

Outside of Utah, the California Legislature renamed a state holiday, Cesar Chavez Day on March 31 (Chavez’s birthday), to “Farmworkers Day” after the Times report published. Meanwhile, statues of Chavez were removed in Denver, Dallas, Milwaukee and Fresno, California, the Times reported.