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Author Fernández, Johanna, 1970- author.

Title The Young Lords : a radical history / Johanna Fernández.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-453) and index.
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.
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Subject Young Lords (Organization) -- History.
Young Lords (Organization)
History.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Puerto Ricans.
New York (State) -- New York.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Community activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Community activists.
Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Political activists.
Puerto Ricans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Puerto Ricans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
National Book Committee.
Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico -- Public opinion.
United States.
Relations.
Puerto Rico.
Public opinion.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fernández, Johanna, 1970- Young Lords. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 9781469653440 (DLC) 2019037862 (OCoLC)1119132643
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