The Young Lords Party (YLP) emerged in 1969 in New York at the height of radical change in the United States. They came out of the Anti-War movement, the women’s movement, and crucially Black- and Third World-liberation struggles. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, the YLP was led by a group of young Puerto Rican, Latinx and Black New Yorkers, many of them students (including BCC). And they were committed to a radical vision of democracy and justice in issues such as housing, education, food, and health. Their groundbreaking work and community activism would go on to shape public health policy.
This site outlines just three chapters of YLP activism: the “Garbage Offensive,” Protest at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, and the fight for Women’s Health.
Young Lords Party 13 Point Program and Platform. The declaration called for the “liberation of all third world people,” “equality for women,” “community control,” and “self-determination for all Latinos.”Young Lords Party poster, ca. 1971, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Latino Initiatives Pool
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