32 Facts About Young Lords

Tactics used by the Young Lords include mass education, canvassing, community programs, occupations, and direct confrontation.

The Young Lords became targets of the United States FBI's COINTELPRO program.

Young Lords started in 1960 in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood as a Puerto Rican turf gang.

The radical movement of the Young Lords modeled themselves after the Black Panther Party, calling for a vanguard of revolutionary minority parties coming together that felt oppressed by a system that wasn't designed to be of assistance to minorities.

Young Lords' focus remains self-determination for Puerto Rico, other Latino and Third World countries, and for neighborhood-controlled development.

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Some Young Lords were involved in the Puerto Rican June 1966 Division Street Riots in Wicker Park and Humboldt Park.

The Young Lords organization began to train students and youth to take on the leadership to organize the Latino community on a national level.

The Young Lords attended an Urban Renewal meeting and told the panel of the local neighborhood association that no more meetings would be permitted in Lincoln Park until people of color were included on the Urban Renewal Board.

In Chicago, the Young Lords occupied local institutions in the Lincoln Park neighborhood to support low-income housing for working families.

In several cities, the Young Lords set up free community programs, such as breakfast and classes.

In 1968, branches of the Young Lords sprouted up in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, New Jersey, Boston, Milwaukee, Hayward, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico.

Besides the coalition with the National Black Panther Party Office in Oakland and the Black Panthers in Chicago, integrated into by the Rainbow Coalition of Fred Hampton, the Young Lords participated in coalitions with groups of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, Northside Cooperative Ministry and the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition.

Young Lords were a target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program that targeted Puerto Rican independence groups.

The entire Chicago leadership of the Young Lords was forced underground to reorganize and avoid complete destruction.

COINTELPRO tactics used against the movements such as the Young Lords included rumor campaigns and pitting groups against each other to create factionalism, distrust, and personality conflicts.

The Young Lords accused the FBI CointelPro of a conspiracy to murder Young Lords and Black Panthers.

Young Lords worked in their communities to provide resources, similar to actions of the Brown Berets and the Black Panther Party.

Young Lords's book argues that Puerto Ricans must fight for their nation against American colonialism by organizing and educating in the barrios and raise awareness of the repression since the creation of the Young Lords as a movement in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

In 1983, the Young Lords organized the first major Latino event for the successful campaign of Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington.

In support of the Puerto Rican Vieques campers, the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, and against the displacement of Puerto Ricans in the Diaspora, the Young Lords organized the Lincoln Park Camp near Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 23,2002.

Young Lords supported freed Puerto Rican nationalist leaders and urban guerrilla groups such as the Macheteros.

The Young Lords created a 10-point program modeled after the Black Panthers 10 point program.

Young Lords' mission supported self determination for Puerto Rico, Latino nations, all oppressed nations, and supported neighborhood empowerment.

The Young Lords envisioned themselves as the vanguard of a people's struggle as they initially fought against the displacement of Puerto Ricans from Lincoln Park.

In New York, the Young Lords followed the lead of Chicago related to city services with the "Garbage Offensive" as a preliminary action.

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Disgruntled, the Young Lords blocked 3rd Avenue traffic at 110th, 111th, and 112th Street.

Young Lords created community projects similar to those of the Black Panthers, yet centralized around Latinos.

In Chicago, the Young Lords set up a free dental clinic and community day care center and worked on solidarity for incarcerated Puerto Ricans and the rights of Vietnam War veterans.

Young Lords carried out many direct-action occupations of vacant land, hospitals, churches and other institutions to demand programs for the poor.

Young Lords inspired young community leaders, professionals, and artists, forming part of a Puerto Rican cultural renaissance in the 1970s.

Young Lords's poems written while a member of The Last Poets, including Jibaro, Un Rifle Oracion and Hey Now.

In 2001, Omar Lopez, Minister of Information of the Young Lords was asked to donate by the Lincoln Park Project archival material that had been used in the Young Lords newspapers.