TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández,Johanna
TI  - The Young Lords: a radical history 
SN  - 9781469653464
AV  - F128.9.P85 F47 2020eb
U1  - 323.1168/729507470904 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Young Lords (Organization)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Puerto Ricans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Community activists
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Activistes
KW  - New York (État)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Portoricains
KW  - Droits
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - International relations
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Relations
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-453) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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