Book
The Young Lords: a reader
New York University Press
2010
DOI: 10.18574/9780814722930
Abstract
The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the northeast and southern California. Part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Patriots, the politically radical Puerto Ricans who constituted the Young Lords instituted programs for political, social, and cultural change within the communities i
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Young Lords: a reader
- Creators
- Darrel Enck-Wanzer - University of North Texas
- Resource Type
- Book
- DOI
- 10.18574/9780814722930
- ISBN
- 0814722733; 0814722938; 9780814722930; 9780814722732; 0814722415; 9780814722411
- eISBN
- 9780814722930; 0814722938; 0814722733; 9780814722732
- Publisher
- New York University Press; New York
- Number of pages
- 278 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984418984402771
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