GENERAL RESOURCES

Jose ‘Cha-Cha’ Jimenez: see the founder of the Young Lords extensive video interviews with Young Lords members, as well as his other work at The Young Lords at Lincoln Park project. See also Cha Cha’s YouTube channel, which contains historical video material.

Bronx Museum (video): Women of the Young Lords Panel.

Felipe Luciano (co-founder of the New York chapter). See his blog, The Lords of East Harlem.

Hiram Maristany (Young Lords photographer).

• What Hiram Maristany Saw Looking Through The Lens At El Barrio.
• Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography.
• Meet the artist.

Iris Morales: official website of Young Lords member and author of Through the Eyes of Rebel Women.

Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio. (Public art project.)

National Young Lords:

• Timeline.
• Young Lords poetry.
• Young Lords videos.
• Bio of Jose (Cha-Cha) Jimenez.

Palante.org:

• 13 Point Program, 1969 original version.
• 13 Point Program, 1970 revised version.
• 10 Point Health Program.
• Timeline of the New York chapter.

Rainbow Coalition Panel, October 23rd, 2016 (Oakland California Museum).

Young Lords:

• Position Paper on Women. (Works well if you zoom in.) See also this version.
• The Ideology of the Young Lords Party.
• Newspaper collection. See also here.

Follow scholars and members of the Young Lords and the Rainbow Coalition here.

See also these resource pages on the Black Panther Party and the Young Patriots.

BOOKS

Darrel Enck-Wanzer: The Young Lords: A Reader.  (See free PDF here.)

Johanna Fernández: The Young Lords: A Radical History.

Lilia Fernández: Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. (See chapter five: The Evolution of the Young Lords Organization: From Street Gang to Revolutionaries).

Sonia Song-Ha Lee: Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.

Miguel Melendez: We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords.

Iris Morales: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976.

Claire Richard: Young Lords: Histoire des Black Panthers latinos, 1969-1976. (In French).

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano: The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation.

Jakobi Williams: From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago.

Young Lords Party.  Palante: Young Lords Party.

ARTICLES

Martha M. Arguello:

• Sisters, Brothers, Young Lords: A Common Cause: 40 Years of Struggle and Remembrance.
• Puerto Rico En Mi Corázon: Young Lords/Puerto Rican Radical Nationalists During the Late 20th Century.
• We Joined Others Who Were Poor: the Young Lords, the Black Freedom Struggle, and the “Original” Rainbow Coalition.

Thomas F. Brady: BADILLO CONFERS WITH YOUNG LORDS.

Jenny Brown: Young Lords organizing sets example for youth now.

Holland Cotter: When the Young Lords Were Outlaws in New York.

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé: Memorialization and Presence: Capturing the Legacies of the Young Lords in New York.

Democracy Now!

• Influential Puerto Rican Activist Group the Young Lords Marks 40th Anniversary.
• “Morir Soñando”: Martín Espada Reads Poem About Luis Garden Acosta, Young Lord & Community Activist.
• From Garbage Offensives to Occupying Churches, Actions of the Young Lords Continue to Inspire.
• The Young Lords: Exploring the Legacy of the Radical Puerto Rican Activist Group 50 Years Later.
• WATCH: The Young Lords, New York @50 Activism: Past & Present.

Darrel Enck-Wanzer: Trashing the system: Social movement, intersectional rhetoric, and collective agency in the Young Lords Organization’s garbage offensive.

Andrew Winston Falion: Pa’lante: The Direct Action Campaigns of the Young Lords Party.

Johanna Fernández: The Young Lords: Its Origins and Convergences with the Black Panther Party.

Johanna Fernández, Charles E. Jones, & Darrel Enck-Wanzer: Radicals in Black and Brown: Palante, People’s Power, and Common Cause in the Black Panthers and Young Lords Organization. 

Tom Fowkes: The School of Music and the Lincoln Park gang that tried to change the world.

Heather Gilligan: Women took on the male leadership of the radical 1960s Puerto Rican movement and (mostly) won: Machismo was unrevolutionary.

Juan González: Celebrating the Young Lords—Amid Revolution in Puerto Rico: We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of New York City’s Young Lords last Friday—and the timing could not have been more apt.

Michael Gonzales:

• Ruffians and Revolutionaries: the Development of the Young Lords Organization in Chicago.
• Latin Liberation News Service: The Newspapers of the Young Lords Organization.
• “Latin Power to Latin People”: the Black Panther Party’s Influence on the Revolutionary Politics of the Young Lords Organization.

Pablo Guzman: A Lord of the Barrio.

Theresa Horvath: THE HEALTH INITIATIVES OF THE YOUNG LORDS PARTY: How a group of 1960s radicals made health a revolutionary concern.

Judson Jeffries: From Gang-bangers to Urban Revolutionaries: The Young Lords of Chicago.

Judson L. Jeffries & Marisol V. Rivera: From Radicalism to Representation: Jose “Cha Cha“ Jimenez’s Journey into Electoral Politics.

Judy Klemesrud: Young Women Find a Place in High Command of Young Lords.

Latino USA (podcast):

• The Young Lords: From Activism to Journalism.
• Young Lords Way.

Jacqueline Lazú: The Chicago Young Lords: (Re)constructing Knowledge and Revolution.

Mervin Mendez: The Young Lords and Early Chicago Puerto Rican Gangs.

Jeb Aram Middlebrook: Organizing a Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity.

Ed Morales: The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ revolution.

Alfonso A. Narvaez: THE YOUNG LORDS SEIZE X‐RAY UNIT.

Jennifer A. Nelson: “Abortions under Community Control”: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Reproduction among New York City’s Young Lords.

NPR: Once Outlaws, Young Lords Find A Museum Home For Radical Roots.

Jeffrey O. G Ogbar: Puerto Rico en mi corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972.

Daniel José Older: Garbage Fires for Freedom: When Puerto Rican Activists Took Over New York’s Streets: Fifty years ago, the Young Lords evolved from a street gang to a political force.

Elías Ortega-Aponte: The Young Lords and the People’s Church: Social Movement Theory, Telling of Brown Power Movements Impact on Latino/a Religious History.

Prison Culture: The Young Lords: A Brief Introduction with Some Illustrations…

Denise Oliver Velez: We were Young Lords, not young ladies.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

• Decolonizing Imaginaries: Rethinking “the People” in the Young Lords’ Church Offensive.
• (Interview by Keisha Blain): On the New York Young Lords: An Interview with Darrel Wanzer-Serrano.

Wikipedia:

• Juan González.
• Pablo Guzmán.
• José “Cha Cha” Jiménez.
• Felipe Luciano.
• Iris Morales.
• Denise Oliver-Velez.
• Women of the Young Lords.
• Young Lords.

Women at the Center: “We Do Everything that the Brothers Do:” Women of the Young Lords.

Jose Yglesias: Right On With the Young Lords.

Young Patriots Organization and the original Rainbow Coalition: The Origins of the Young Lords Organization.