Title The Young Lords : a radical history / Johanna Fernández

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Beginnings: José "Cha Cha" Jiménez and the Roots of Rebellion -- Coming of Age in the 1960s: The Emergence of the New York Young Lords -- The Garbage Offensive -- Building Blocks -- Diseases of Poverty -- The Church Offensive: Prefiguring the New Society at the People's Church -- The Politics and Culture of the Young Lords Party -- The Politics of Race and Gender -- The Lincoln Offensive: Toward a Patient Bill of Rights -- A Second Occupation -- Organizational Decline -- Coda: Beware of Movements Summary "Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. [The author] utiliz[es] oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle ... [for this] account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-453) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2021) Subject Young Lords (Organization) -- History SUBJECT Young Lords (Organization) fast Subject Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century Community activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Puerto Ricans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century. Civil rights movements Community activists Ethnic relations International relations -- Public opinion Political activists Puerto Ricans -- Civil rights Puerto Ricans -- Politics and government Puerto Ricans -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico -- Public opinion Subject New York (State) -- New York Puerto Rico United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469653464 146965346X 9781469653457 1469653451

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