The Young Lords in Lincoln Park

Presentation Type

Oral and/or Visual Presentation

Presenter Major(s)

Liberal Studies

Mentor Information

Melanie Shell-Weiss

Department

Liberal Studies

Location

Kirkhof Center 2201

Start Date

10-4-2013 12:00 AM

End Date

10-4-2013 12:00 AM

Keywords

Human Rights, Social Class, U.S. Diversity

Abstract

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, urban renewal programs forcibly displaced thousands of families from their homes. Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood was no exception. Where thriving church congregations, social and political clubs, and family residences once flourished, successive waves of urban renewal and gentrification forcibly displaced most of the Puerto Ricans, Mexicanos, other Latinos, working-class and impoverished families, and their children who had made this place their home. Founded by Mr. Jose "Cha-Cha" Jimenez in 1968, the Young Lords Organization became one of the premier organizations advocating for international human rights. Much of the work of these organizations remains untold and uncollected. Focusing on the "Young Lords in Lincoln Park" project, this paper explores the hidden stories and contested truths surrounding the politics of solidarity and self-determination by Latino, African-American, and poor communities in Chicago in the 1960s-1980s and beyond.

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The Young Lords in Lincoln Park

Kirkhof Center 2201

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, urban renewal programs forcibly displaced thousands of families from their homes. Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood was no exception. Where thriving church congregations, social and political clubs, and family residences once flourished, successive waves of urban renewal and gentrification forcibly displaced most of the Puerto Ricans, Mexicanos, other Latinos, working-class and impoverished families, and their children who had made this place their home. Founded by Mr. Jose "Cha-Cha" Jimenez in 1968, the Young Lords Organization became one of the premier organizations advocating for international human rights. Much of the work of these organizations remains untold and uncollected. Focusing on the "Young Lords in Lincoln Park" project, this paper explores the hidden stories and contested truths surrounding the politics of solidarity and self-determination by Latino, African-American, and poor communities in Chicago in the 1960s-1980s and beyond.