North America is the Lord's
Author : James W. Lowry
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780878139163
Author : James W. Lowry
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780878139163
Author : Johanna Fernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1469653451
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police surveillance files released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a Chicago street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization in New York. Led by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords occupied a hospital, blocked traffic with uncollected garbage, took over a church, tested children for lead poisoning, defended prisoners, fought the military police, and fed breakfast to poor children. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won reforms, popularized socialism in the United States and exposed U.S. mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. Fernandez challenges what we think we know about the sixties. She shows that movement organizers were concerned with finding solutions to problems as pedestrian as garbage collection and the removal of lead paint from tenement walls; gentrification; lack of access to medical care; childcare for working mothers; and the warehousing of people who could not be employed in deindustrialized cities. The Young Lords' politics and preoccupations, especially those concerning the rise of permanent unemployment foretold the end of the American Dream. In riveting style, Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.
Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
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ISBN : 0915703335
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1800
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Author : Great Britain House of Lords
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 1764
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Great Britain
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Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Author : Great Britain
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Customhouses
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Author : Great Britain. Board of Trade. Railway Department
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Railroads
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Author : Great Britain Railway Department
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1853
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