TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández,Johanna
TI  - The Young Lords: a radical history 
SN  - 9781469653464
AV  - F128 .Y686 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Young Lords (Organization)
KW  - History
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  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
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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