The Young Lords : a radical history / Johanna Fernández.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781469653464
- Young Lords (Organization) -- History
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Community activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Puerto Ricans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- F128 .Y686 2020
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Includes bibliographies and index.
"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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