Young Lords
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Young Lords
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| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| International affiliation | Puerto Rico |
| Colors | Black and Purple with Gold |
 From Garbage Offensives to Occupying Churches, Actions of the Young Lords Continue to Inspire, Democracy Now, September 23, 2015 |
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Rev. Bruce and Eugenia Ransier Johnson
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Lords and Eagles
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Young Lords Origins
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1968
The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and, in New York (notably Spanish Harlem), Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States cities, notably New York City and Chicago.
The Young Lords began in 1960 as a Puerto Rican turf gang in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.In 1967 they left the gang led by their president Jose Cha Cha Jimenez who reorganized them into a national civil and human rights movement on Grito de Lares, September 23, 1968. They then spread to nearly 30 cities including three branches in New York. During Mayor Daley's tenure, Puerto Ricans in Lincoln Park (the first hub of Puerto Ricans in Chicago) and several Mexican communities were completely evicted from areas near the Loop, lakefront, Old Town, Lakeview and Lincoln Park, to increase property tax revenues. When the Young Lords realized that urban renewal was evicting their families from their barrios and witnessed police abuses, some became involved in the Puerto Rican June 1966 Division Street Riots in Wicker Park and Humboldt Park. A couple of years later is when they joined with others and were reorganized from the street gang into a civil and human rights movement by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez Puerto Rican self-determination and the displacement of Puerto Ricans and poor residents from prime real estate areas for profit became the primary focus of the original movement. Since there were few Latino students and no outspoken leadership at the time, the Young Lords transformed themselves, training leadership and organizing the broader community.
Multiple chapters began forming on their own nationwide with several loose branches inspired by Chicago forming in NYC.On July 26, 1969, national headquarters in Chicago asked this loose coalition of chapters to form one New York branch. Later, they were sanctioned as the regional chapter, accepting neighborhood empowerment and Puerto Rican self-determination as the unifying mission. The national office headed by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, where the movement originated in Chicago, gave approval primarily because New York then was the port of entry for nearly 90% of the Puerto Ricans and where most continued to live on the mainland.It therefore was then the most populated center of the Puerto Ricans in the diaspora. Nevertheless, the Young Lords originated from the transformed Lumpen Proletariat in Chicago which mobilized various social classes and various ethnic People's within the community.
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