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Bookmark or Share- The Young Lords of Lincoln Park | Chicago Stories | WTTW ChicagoThere was a time, from the late 1940s through the 1960s, when the now-upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood served as the beating heart of Chicago’s huge Puerto Rican community, and the base of operations for a band of Puerto Rican revolutionaries known as the Young Lords. Led by a young man named José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, the activist group – which evolved from a social club to a street ...
- 1968: The Young Lord's Organization/Party - Library of CongressModeled and inspired after the Black Panther Party (BPP), the YLO emerged from a Puerto Rican street gang to a community-based organization involved in advocating for minority access to healthcare, education, housing, and employment.
- The Summer 1969 Campaign · The Young Lords · Digital ChicagoThe Young Lords was a Puerto Rican activist group based in the west-end of Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Although they began as a street gang, their mission is much different from what we typically understand a gang to be.
- Past is Present: The Young Lords Party RevisitedInfluenced by the example of Fred Hampton, Chicago’s Black Panther Party head, Jimenez and the Young Lords joined the Rainbow Coalition; a street gang was transformed into a politicized youth-based, human rights organization.
- Young Lords - WikipediaThe Young Lords[a] was a Chicago -based street gang that became a civil rights and human rights organization. [2][3] The group, most active in the late 1960s and 1970s, aimed to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latino, and colonized ("Third World") people. [4][5] Tactics used by the Young Lords include m...
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