Reasons For The Downfall Of The Young Lords Party

The events of 7 June 1969 were but one of many moments in the history of New York City 's Puerto Rican community that gave rise to and lent support for the Young Lords Party.[4] Indeed over the course of the next five years this ethnic group of radical intellectuals would help bring attention to the plight of the Puerto Rican community in New York City. This essay explores the history of the late twentieth century Puerto Rican migrants in New York City through an examination of the Young Lords Party (1969 to 1974). In doing so, it examines several significant topics, including the growth of the Puerto Rican population in New York City; the unique challenges this ethnic group faced, and the origins, growth and decline of the Young Lords Party.

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The New York City Young Lords Organization later known as the Young Lords Party was founded by a group of Puerto Rican student from New York. They were inspired by the Black Panther Party and a group of Young Lords in Chicago, Illinois. They

The Puerto Ricans in New York were being submerged in racist repression and a severe economic exploitation. There Puerto Ricans faced filthy and dangerous tenement housing and a school system that denigrated their language and culture and offered little opportunity for higher education. The Latino population could not get ahead because of the daily repression to which they are subjected. In the streets they faced an occupying army, the New York City Police Department, which was openly racist and used violence liberally. “Puerto Ricans were good enough to die in the jungle of Vietnam, but were treated like the Viet Cong on the streets of New York,” according to to “palante brief history of the Young Lords”what the young lord tried to do oster seeing all the events that were helping to denigrated the latino community they began to clean the streets. Gave

1. The Young Lords Organization was sent from Puerto Rico to the United States. They went from a Puerto Rican street gang to a political party. Their purpose was to fight for the independence of Puerto Rico. They wanted to liberate Puerto Ricans in the United States from the oppression that they suffered. They were treated as slaves just like the African Americans and wanted it to end immediately. The Young Lords consisted of both women and men.

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