The Young Lords: a reader

by Enck-Wanzer, Darrel Morales, Iris Oliver, Denise

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Title Statements

Full title :The Young Lords : a reader / edited by Darrel Enck-Wanzer ; foreword by Iris Morales and Denise Oliver-Velez.

Summary

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 in which they operated. The Young Lords offers readers the opportunity to learn about this vibrant organization through their own words and images, collecting an array of their essays, journalism, photographs, speeches, and pamphlets. Organized topically and thematically, this volume highlights the Young Lords OCO diverse and inventive activism around issues such as education, health care, gentrification, police injustice and gender equality, as well as self-determination for Puerto Rico. In recovering these rare written and visual materials, Darrel Enck-Wanzer has given voice to the lost chorus of the Young Lords, while providing an indispensable resource for students, scholars, activists, and others interested in learning about this influential grassroots OC street political OCO organization."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010

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Editorial.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780814722930, 0814722938, 9780814722732, 0814722733
DOI:10.18574/9780814722930
oclc:ocn779828060
LC Classification:F128.9.P85 Y68 2010eb
Dewey Decimal:305.86872950747

Subjects

Activistes -- Biographies. -- New York … Anglais (Langue) -- Lectures et morceau… Biographies Civil rights and socialism Civil rights and socialism -- Sources. … Ethnic relations History HISTORY -- 20th Century. -- United Stat… New York (N.Y.) -- Biography New York (N.Y.) -- Sources. -- Ethnic r… New York (N.Y.) -- Sources. -- Social c… New York (State) -- New York New York, NY Organización Obrera Revolucionaria Puer… Political activists Political activists -- Biography. -- Ne… Portoricains -- Biographies. -- New Yor… Portoricains -- Sources. -- Conditions … Puerto Rican community activism Puerto Ricaner