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The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago

by Laz

The Young Lords’ organizing in Chicago and beyond

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The Young Lords’ organizing in Chicago and beyond

Edited by Laz, this book examines the Young Lords’ transformation from a Chicago street gang into a revolutionary community organization in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its subject spans neighborhood campaigns against gentrification, poverty, racism, and police brutality, as well as the group’s alliance with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. The account also traces the Young Lords’ expansion into Puerto Rican and Latino communities in New York City and their calls for Puerto Rican self-determination. The supplied description identifies community mobilization, political organizing, and liberation as central threads.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of Latino and Puerto Rican activism in the United States.
  • Readers exploring community organizing and Chicago’s late-1960s political movements.
  • Readers studying the Young Lords, the Black Panther Party, or the Rainbow Coalition.

Themes

Latino and Puerto Rican activismCommunity organizingRacism and police brutalityGentrification and povertyPuerto Rican self-determination

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Book overview

Rooted in a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords grew into one of the most dynamic revolutionary community organizations of the late 1960s and early '70s.

In their field jackets and signature purple berets, using militant tactics like building takeovers and mass education, the Young Lords mobilized their community for liberation and against gentrification, poverty, racism, and police brutality. Forging a Rainbow Coalition with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords expanded from their Chicago headquarters into the Puerto Rican and Latino barrios of New York City and elsewhere, demanding an end to the US occupation of Puerto Rico and self-determination for oppressed communities everywhere.

With a foreword by founder Jos

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