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We Took the Streets - Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords (Paperback)
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We Took the Streets - Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords (Paperback)
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In 1968 Miguel ""Mickey"" Melendez was a college student,
developing pride in his Cuban and Puerto Rican cultural identity
and becoming increasingly aware of the effects of social inequality
on Latino Americans. Joining with other like-minded student
activists, Melendez helped form the central committee of the New
York branch of the Young Lords, one of the most provocative and
misunderstood radical groups to emerge during the 1960s.
Incorporating techniques of direct action and community
empowerment, the Young Lords became a prominent force in the urban
northeast. From their storefront offices in East Harlem, they
defiantly took back the streets of El Barrio. In addition to
running clothing drives, day-care centers, and food and health
programs, they became known for their media-savvy tactics and bold
actions, like the takeovers of the First People's Church and
Lincoln Hospital. In this memoir, Melendez describes with the
unsparing eye of an insider the idealism, anger, and vitality of
the Lords as they rose to become the most respected and powerful
voice of Puerto Rican empowerment in the country. He also traces
the internal ideological disputes that led the group, but not the
mission, to fracture in 1972. Written with passion and compelling
detail, We Took the Streets tells the story of how one group took
on the establishment - and won.
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