The Young Lords of East Harlem

Link to interviews with former Young Lord’s 40 years later, 2009

 Young Lords meeting

 Door-to-Door TB Testing, Lower East Side, December, 1970

Source: Palante; Young Lords Party

 

 

 

Photograph by Francisco Molina Reyes II

Young Lords march, East Harlem

 

 

Hotline Cares Volunteers

 

 

 

 

 

Young Lords Party Free Breakfast Program

Source: Palante; Young Lords Party

 

Books on The Young Lords

News on The Young Lords

 Palante; Young Lords Party

Young Women Find a Place in High Command of Young Lords, 1969

Puetro Rican Group Seizes Church in East Harlem in Demand for Space, 1969

Young Lords Give Care at Seized Church, 1969

105 Members of the Young Lords Submit to arrest, Ending 11-Day Occupation of Church in East Harlem, 1969

Militants Vow to Continue Protest at Harlem Church, 1969

East Harlem Youth Explain Garbage-Dumping Demostration, 1969

 Map of East Harlem

 Source: East Harlem Revisited

The Black Panthers

Interview with Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party Chairman, in Chicago in 1969.

Talking about community self determination and people power.

 

 

 

 

 

Black Panther Free Clothing Program

  Black Panther Free Clothing Program

 Black Panther Breakfast Program

Photo by Pirckle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch; Source: The Pirckle Jones Foundation

 Black Panther Free Breakfast Program

 Black Panther Free Food Program