The Young Lords: A Reader

by Iris Morales, Denise Oliver-Velez, Darrel Enck-Wanzer, et al.

Book Overview

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the northeast and southern California. Part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Patriots, the politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814722423
• ISBN13: 9780814722428
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"